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Keyboard Shortcuts for Eclipse to improve Productivity

Posted by A24M Labels: at 2:35 pm
Keyboard Shortcuts for Eclipse to improve Productivity
Keyboard Shortcuts for Eclipse
For many years working with eclipse and hearing general query form team mates, peers and friends I decided to note down few tips and tricks which i mostly follow while using eclipse IDE.

While working with different projects I found few keyboard shortcuts which are significantly time saver and smart enough to perform certain task. These shortcuts let me finish my task faster or say get my things done fast/efficient and neatly.

It is very obvious from developer perspective that using mouse during coding is not comfortable and using keyboard shortcuts to perform mouse events can save time and improve productivity.

Here is list of few shortcuts:

#Note: Am not including general purpose shortcuts like cut, copy, paste, select all etc.

ShortCut
What it Does
F3
Open Declaration
CTRL + SPACE
Auto Complete
CTRL + B
Build All
CTRL + D
Delete current Line
CTRL + E
Open/navigate to specific file which already open - Switch Editor
CTRL + F
Find/Replace
CTRL + G
Search for declaration in Workspace (after highlighting a word)
CTRL + H
Perform Different type of Search like Task Search/ Java Search/ JavaScript Search/ Plugin Search
CTRL + I
Correct Indentation of the code (mostly used for neat and clear display of code)
CTRL + K
Incremental find for selected word in the file
CTRL + L
Jump/Go to Line Number
CTRL + M
Toggling of current window to Full screen(maximized) and its original size.
CTRL + N
Create New Content wizard
CTRL + O
Quick show for inherited members
CTRL + Q
Last Edit Location
CTRL + T
Open/show super type of Hierarchy
CTRL + W
Close current Editor
CTRL + .
Next Annotation
CTRL + ,
Previous Annotation
CTRL + Right Arrow ()
Forward (works when working two or more than two file and back is already pressed)
CTRL + Left Arrow ()
Back (works when working two or more than two file)
CTRL + SHIFT + F
Format
CTRL + SHIFT + R
Open Resource
CTRL + SHIFT + I
Inspect (Evaluate an expression while in debug mode)
CTRL + SHIFT + P
Find matching brace
CTRL + SHIFT + L
Key Assist / open a preference page

Advance Tip:
Double clicking to the immediate right of an opening or closing brace selects all the code between them.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous16 October 2013 at 16:03

    Nice. Thanks for sharing :)

    You might want to add “CTRL + Mouse Left Click” -> Go to Method declaration

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  2. Gayatri Himthani16 October 2013 at 16:29

    very useful information Anshul and Samarth. thanks for sharing :)

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