[Eclipse] How to switch to left and right editor tab?

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Magir - 29 Dec 2004 09:11 GMT

I'd like to control Eclipse as much as possible from the keyboard and
until now I wasn't able to find a way to switch to the left or right
editor tab, the only available short definitions switch to something
like "next" and "previous" tab but it would be much more efficient to
switch the tabs left and right. There is a workaround by selecting the
tabs and pressing right and left arrow but thats quite complicated and I
guess I only didn't find the right option to enable that.

Anyone who can give me a hint?

mg

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P.Xman - 29 Dec 2004 13:25 GMT

I use CTRL-F6 and CTRL-F7 to toggle between the editors and views

>I'd like to control Eclipse as much as possible from the keyboard and
>until now I wasn't able to find a way to switch to the left or right
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>mg

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Martin Girschick - 30 Dec 2004 08:30 GMT

> I use CTRL-F6 and CTRL-F7 to toggle between the editors and views

I don't really see, how this can help. This toggles between the editors
and what exactly?

Martin

> >I'd like to control Eclipse as much as possible from the keyboard and
> >until now I wasn't able to find a way to switch to the left or right
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> >mg

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reachmuthukumar@gmail.com - 07 Jan 2005 11:38 GMT

use Ctrl F6 to switch between the files opened in the editor's tab and
use Ctrl F7 to switch between navigaor or editor or search...
rgds
muthu

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Martin Girschick - 08 Jan 2005 18:40 GMT

Thanks for the answer, I already found that shortcut definition but I
was searching for a shortcut which switches directly to the left and
right tab which is way faster then selecting the approriate file from
the list which comes up when you press ctrl-f6 - I usually have between
10 and 20 source code files open (which might not be a good idea I
guess...).

Anyone else any ideas?

MG.

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Tilman Bohn - 22 Jan 2005 17:06 GMT

> Thanks for the answer, I already found that shortcut definition but I
> was searching for a shortcut which switches directly to the left and
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> Anyone else any ideas?

Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown does exactly what you want. This is nice, for it's the
same shortcut as used to switch left and right between tabs in all of
Firefox, gnome-terminals and openoffice spreadsheets (the latter makes
me suspect that Excel probably uses the same). Anyway, HTH.

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Cheers, Tilman

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Martin Girschick - 26 Jan 2005 15:36 GMT

> Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown does exactly what you want.

Thanks! I really should've tried that one ;-).

The thing is: This command doesn't appear in the list of commands which
are configurable via the preferences, too bad because that is the main
place to find keyboard shortcuts.

Anyway, I got what I want :-).

mg

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