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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Important Eclipse shortcuts

Recently I switched from being an IntelliJ IDEA user to become an Eclipse user. Although Eclipse refactoring features are not as good as IDEAs I really, really like the Maven integration m2eclipse in Eclipse. Those guys from Sonatype do a fantastic job there.
Together with Nexus - which also is developed by Sonatype - it is a wonderful combination of working development tools.
And no, I do not work for Sonatype ;-)
Now back to what really puzzles me in Eclipse.... the shortcuts and some missing features. One of the really important features I heavily used in IDEA was "Go To Implementation". If you are working on an interface and you would like to know which classes implement this interface you select "Go To Implementation" and IDEA shows you all the implementations of that interface.
Unfortunately I really couldn't find this feature in Eclipse until I stumbled up on this blog entry. This entry almost saved my life as a developer ;-)
Okay, to make it short: The shortcut for "Go To Implementation" in Eclipse is "Ctrl-T" and not F3!
Here is a small summary of very important Eclipse shortcuts:
  • Using Interfaces if you want to see implementation press Ctrl–T and not F3.

  • 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.
  • And maybe the most important one: Ctrl-Shift-L shows you a list of all possible shortcuts available in the current context.

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