[eclipse] Do some of you use Eclipse without a mouse ?

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Luc Mercier - 10 May 2005 21:04 GMT

This is a real question. I don't want to launch a Eclipse VS IDEA troll,
but I used to use IDEA without never touching my mouse, which is very
pleasant. Since I've moved to Eclipse, I use it all the time. Do some of
you program with Eclipse without?

What I missed the most, for people who know both, is the F12 shortcut
(go to field or method) and the CTRL+N (go to class). So far under
Eclipse I haven't find anything else than browsing the hierarchy to do
that. But maybe it exists all the same. If you know how to do, you can
save my life ;)

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Robert Klemme - 11 May 2005 09:22 GMT

> This is a real question. I don't want to launch a Eclipse VS IDEA
> troll, but I used to use IDEA without never touching my mouse, which
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> What I missed the most, for people who know both, is the F12 shortcut
> (go to field or method)

Ctrl-O

> and the CTRL+N (go to class).

Ctrl-Shift-T

> So far under
> Eclipse I haven't find anything else than browsing the hierarchy to do
> that. But maybe it exists all the same. If you know how to do, you can
> save my life ;)

What do I get for this? :-)

Kind regards

robert

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Michael I - 11 May 2005 14:07 GMT

To obtain a list of Eclipse's shortcut keys
use the menu bar command Help > Show Key Assist...

From the keyboard, use Alt-H, K or Ctrl-Shift-L.

To get the list onto a printed page when the
Show Key Assist is active:

1) press Ctrl-Shift-L again.
This pops up the Keys preferences page.

2) Choose the View tab (Alt-I).

3) Choose the Export... button (Alt-X).
This pops up a Save As dialog.

4) Type a preferred file name for saving. Press Enter.
This saves the file in comma-separated value (csv)
format.

5) The *.csv file may be opened by OpenOffice Calc,
Ms. Excel-Spreadsheet or an equivalent application.
That application can print a table of Key Assist bindings.

NOTE: Eclipse writes the *.csv file in a fashion that
requires a bit of editing to be best viewed by spreadsheets.
Key sequences that are described with commas
(for example, the Alt-Shift-X,J sequence that will
Run Java Application) have their commas interpreted
as field separators by spreadsheet programs. (This is
a known bug in Eclipse version 3.1M6, bug 94667.)

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Roland - 11 May 2005 12:46 GMT

> This is a real question. I don't want to launch a Eclipse VS IDEA troll,
> but I used to use IDEA without never touching my mouse, which is very
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> that. But maybe it exists all the same. If you know how to do, you can
> save my life ;)

F3 opens the declaration of the selected class, method or field. F4
opens the class hierarchy.

On <http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/shortcuts.html> you can find a
PDF with Eclipse keyboard shortcuts.

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Roland de Ruiter
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Luc Mercier - 11 May 2005 15:11 GMT

Thx to all of you.

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Shai - 17 May 2005 18:34 GMT

You have all these keyboard shortcuts in eclipse. Use CTRL+SHIFT+L for a
list of all shortcuts (you can also customise these shortcuts).

HTH,

Shai

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