Comments on: Using Eclipse Better

By: Ruben Badaró

Ruben Badaró — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:49:21 +0000

I use Ctrl + O a lot to navigate the current file. For shortcuts that I don't know, I use Ctrl + 3 – it allows me to write the command I want to execute and is really useful.

By: sveinhd

sveinhd — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:13:52 +0000

thanks for a great post. a lot of shotcuts I didn't know

By: Johannes Brodwall

Johannes Brodwall — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:49:17 +0000

alt-shift-r is a very good candidate. I wanted to keep the list short, and I expect people will discover this one on their own. ;-)

By: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:30:56 +0000

Great compilation, Johannes. Of course I have some opinions :)

Ctrl+F6 for switching editors? Bah. Just use Ctrl+PgUp/down to cycle between them. Or Ctrl+E to filter.

If you want to jump to implementation instead of interface (F3), use Ctrl+T (quick hierarchy).

I also like to bind "Rerun JUnit Test" to something around F11, I think that works better than Ctrl+F11. By default it's not bound to a keyboard shortcut, which is silly.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:25:58 +0000

Regarding the F3 tips (i.e. go to definition) you will jump into the interface (of course, assuming the type of the clicked method is an interface), but for interfaces I think it is more common to want to jump into the implementation, and if you use the plugin below, then you can jump directly into the implementation if there is only one, but if there are many implementations, you will get a dropdown list and can select the desired implementation.
http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/implemento...

By: Rune Flobakk

Rune Flobakk — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:08:30 +0000

Amen! This is a tool that I've found invaluable to learn shortcuts in Eclipse: http://www.mousefeed.com
It shows a baloon tip each time you do an operation with the mouse, which also has an assigned keyboard shortcut. This is all good, but it becomes really useful once you set it to actually block the operation you just tried to use the mouse for, so it forces you to use the keyboard shortcut, and thus drilling it into your fingers. Probably somewhat annoying the first one or two days, but trust me, it is worth it.

Some additional recommended shortcut assignments:
- Rerun last JUnit test: Alt-Shift-X, Z
Great for TDD and refactoring. You do small changes and frequently execute the test(s) without needing to change your view from the code your are working on. I almost have the same habit with this shortcut as with Ctrl-S in Microsoft Word ;)
- SVN/CVS/Git/whatever Revert: Ctrl-Alt-Z. The "undo" of source control management
- Remove the Ctrl-N shortcut for the generic "New" dialog, and assign things like "Ctrl-N, C", "Ctrl-N, T", "Ctrl-N, I" for New Class, New JUnit Test, New Interface, etc.

By: kartben

kartben — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:02:19 +0000

I could not live without CTRL-3 …

By: ellnestam

ellnestam — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:47:51 +0000

Type filter, Thank you!! Tip of the week, if not month. Can't believe I've not seen that.

One question though? What happened to Rename – alt-shift-r. Do you always get your names right? ;-)