December 3, 2007

Top 5 Eclipse shortcuts You should know

Eclipse must know keystrokes:

  • Using Interfaces if you want to see implementation of function, instead of F3 press Ctrl – T while on the function name.
  • Open Type (Ctrl-Shift-T) should be used to open a class, and Open Resource to browse to a file. Although Open Resource can be used to open java files, Open Type shows only classes making list it a shorter list.

  • Ctrl-O in a class definition brings up Quick Outline. Start typing a member name and hit return when it’s unambiguous.

  • Ctrl-F6 can be used to switch to the editors. The order of the editors is quite user friendly as most recently used on the top. Same way Ctrl-F7 to switch to Views and Ctrl-F8 for Perspective.

  • (This one is my favorite) Shift-Alt-X T to run the unit tests in the class you are working on. This keystroke seems long but it’s logical. Shift-Alt-X for execution, Shift-Alt-D for debugging and T for unit test. Try and learn these Eclipse keystrokes to improve your programming efficiency.
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9 comments:

  1. Ivan MemrukDecember 3, 2007 at 8:19 AM

    > Open Type shows only classes making list it a shorter list.

    Also, unlike Open Resource, it accepts abbreviated name lookup (i.e. type NPE to find NullPointerException, or SB to match StringBuffer, StringBuilder etc.)

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  2. AnonymousDecember 3, 2007 at 12:22 PM

    Ctrl-T ... You cannot imagine how insane I become when I type F3 and I go to the interface instead of the implementation. This is going to be the most useful eclipse shortcut that I will probably ever use, after F3 of course =)

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  3. AnonymousDecember 3, 2007 at 7:27 PM

    Ctrl + M for open view in full screen view

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  4. UnknownDecember 3, 2007 at 11:03 PM

    Thanx Ivan.

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  5. vadimDecember 4, 2007 at 3:03 AM

    It is really fun to share your Eclipse shortcuts list :)
    There is my shortcut list
    http://voituk.kiev.ua/2007/09/24/usefull-eclipse-shortcuts/

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  6. AnonymousDecember 4, 2007 at 4:25 PM

    For those that become insane :) when go to implementation rather that interface (CTRL-T, F3) look here http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/implementors/

    IMO Ctrl-Alt-H (Open call hierarchy) and CTRL-1 (quick fix) are very useful.

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  7. BrianDecember 4, 2007 at 6:51 PM

    You left off the most useful shortcut: Ctl-Shift-L it lists all of the available shortcuts.

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  8. Muhammed Younus AttariMay 23, 2012 at 2:54 AM

    Alt+right arrow ,used for switching to next tab.
    ctrl+M (max or min the window)

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