This document provides a summary of common Eclipse shortcuts organized into categories such as navigation, editing, refactoring, and running programs. It includes over 50 shortcuts for navigating code, searching, formatting, renaming variables, generating code, and more. The shortcuts allow quick access to commands, moving between editors, finding errors, surround code with blocks, copying/moving lines, and minimum essential shortcuts like saving, formatting, content assist, and running programs.
This document provides a summary of common Eclipse shortcuts organized into categories such as navigation, editing, refactoring, and running programs. It includes over 50 shortcuts for navigating code, searching, formatting, renaming variables, generating code, and more. The shortcuts allow quick access to commands, moving between editors, finding errors, surround code with blocks, copying/moving lines, and minimum essential shortcuts like saving, formatting, content assist, and running programs.
This document provides a summary of common Eclipse shortcuts organized into categories such as navigation, editing, refactoring, and running programs. It includes over 50 shortcuts for navigating code, searching, formatting, renaming variables, generating code, and more. The shortcuts allow quick access to commands, moving between editors, finding errors, surround code with blocks, copying/moving lines, and minimum essential shortcuts like saving, formatting, content assist, and running programs.
This document provides a summary of common Eclipse shortcuts organized into categories such as navigation, editing, refactoring, and running programs. It includes over 50 shortcuts for navigating code, searching, formatting, renaming variables, generating code, and more. The shortcuts allow quick access to commands, moving between editors, finding errors, surround code with blocks, copying/moving lines, and minimum essential shortcuts like saving, formatting, content assist, and running programs.
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ECLIPSE SHORTCUTS
1. Quick Access Shortcut Description Ctrl + 3 Perform all available actions in Eclipse. This shortcut puts the focus into the Quick Access search box which allows you to execute any Eclipse command.
2. Navigation 2.1. Globally available navigation shortcuts
Table 1. Navigation Shortcut Ctrl + Shift + T Ctrl + E Ctrl + F8 Description Search dialog for Java Types Search dialog to select an editor from the currently open editors Shortcut for switching perspectives Ctrl + Shift + R Search dialog for resources, e.g. text files
2.2. Navigation shortcuts in the editor
Table 2. Search from an editor
Shortcut F3 Ctrl + . Ctrl + , F4 on a variable Ctrl + J Ctrl + K Ctrl + Shift + G Ctrl + Shift + P Description Opens editor to selected element (type) or navigate to the declaration of the selected variable Go to the next problem / error Go to the previous problem / error Show type hierarchy Incremental search without popup dialog, just starting typing to search. Press Ctrl + J to find the next match Searches the selected text or if nothing is selected the last search from the Find dialog. In the Java editor, s\earch for references in the workspace Select the matching bracket. Cursor needs to be placed before or after a bracket.
Table 3. Navigation between editors
Shortcut Alt + Alt + Ctrl + Q Ctrl + PageUp Description Go to previous opened editor. Cursor is placed where it was before you opened the next editor Similar Alt + but opens the next editor Go to editor and the position in this editor where the last edit was done Switch to previous opened editor
Ctrl + PageDown Switch to next opened editor
3. Start Java programs
Table 4. Running programs Shortcut Ctrl + F11 Description Run last launched
Alt + Shift + X, J Run current selected class as Java application
5. Editing Table 5. Handling the editor Shortcut Ctrl + 1 Ctrl + Space Ctrl + T Ctrl + O Ctrl + M Ctrl + Shift + F Ctrl + I Ctrl + F Ctrl + Alt + Z Description Quickfix; result depending on cursor position Content assist/ code completion Show the inheritance tree of the current Java class or method. Show all methods of the current class, press Ctrl + O again to show the inherited methods. Maximize active editor or view Format source code Correct indentation, e.g. format tabs/whitespaces in code Opens the find dialog Wrap the select block of code into a block, e.g. try/catch.
Ctrl + Shift + O Organize the imports; adds missing import statements and removes unused ones
Table 6. Cursor navigation and text selection
Shortcut Ctrl + or Ctrl + Ctrl + or Ctrl + Shift + P Shift + Cursor movement Alt + Shift / Description Move one text element in the editor to the left or right Scroll up / down a line in the editor Go to the matching bracket Select text from the starting position of the cursor Select the previous / next syntactical element
Alt + Shift / / / Extending / reducing the selection of the previous / next syntactical element
Table 7. Copy and move lines
Shortcut Ctrl + Alt + Cusor Up Alt + Up Alt + Down Description Copy current line above the line in which the cursor is placed Move line one line up Move line one line down Ctrl + Alt + Cusor Down Copy current line below the line in which the cursor is placed
Table 8. Delete Shortcut Ctrl + D Ctrl + Shift + DEL Ctrl + DEL Description Deletes line Delete until end of line Delete next element
Ctrl + BACKSPACE Delete previous element
Table 9. Create new lines
Shortcut Shift + Enter Description Adds a blank line below the current line and moves the cursor to the new line. The difference between a regular enter is that the currently line is unchanged, independently of the position of the cursor.
Ctrl+Shift+Enter Same as Shift + Enter but above
Table 10. Variable assignment
Shortcut Ctrl + 2, L Description Assign statement to new local variable
Ctrl + 2, F Assign statement to new field
6. Coding Table 11. Coding Shortcut Shift + F2 Alt+Shift + N Description Show the Javadoc for the selected type / class / method Shortcut for the menu to create new objects
Alt + Shift + Z Surround block with try and catch
7. Refactoring Table 12. Refactoring Shortcut Ctrl + 2, R Alt + Shift + T Description Rename locally (in file), faster than Alt + Shift + R Opens the context-sensitive refactoring menu, e.g. displays Alt + Shift + R Rename
8. Minimum Table 13. Must known shortcuts Shortcut Ctrl + S Ctrl + 1 Ctrl + Space Ctrl + Q Ctrl+ D Ctrl + 2, L or F Ctrl + Shift + T Ctrl + O Ctrl + F11 Description Saves current editor Quickfix; shows potential fixes for warnings, errors or shows possible actions Content assist/ code completion Goes to the last edited position Deletes current line in the editor Assign statement to new local variable or field Open Type Dialog Shows quick outline of a class Run last launched application
Ctrl + Shift + O Adjusts the imports statements in the current Java source file
