Learn Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts Easily
Using keyboard shortcuts can vastly increase your productivity. Instead of switching between keyboard and mouse all the times, trying to figure out where that mouse cursor is, left/right clicking your way through context menus nested several levels deep, you could’ve just hit Alt-Shift-I, for instance, for inlining constants, variables, methods, etc… But how to remember the most important ones? Tricky…
Except if you’re using the mousefeed Eclipse plugin:
http://www.mousefeed.com/ (ignore the bad page layout)
This plugin will show a very annoying and obnoxious, big popup indicating the keyboard shortcut that you could’ve used just now instead of clicking through Eclipse menus with your mouse. For instance:
A shortcut reminder
This will eventually annoy you so much that you’ll willingly use the suggested keyboard shortcut just to make the popup go away! And the best thing is, you’ll only learn the shortcuts for those actions that you really execute very often.
Be productive again!
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Comments
Piotr Kochanski replied on Fri, 2012/10/12 - 6:59am
Mike P(Okidoky) replied on Fri, 2012/10/12 - 11:24am
For VIM lovers there is Vrapper. Instead of using Escape key, use Control+[. Reconfigure your keyboard to swap Control and Caps Lock, because Caps Lock is hardly ever used, and the Control key is in a really awkward place making you have to twist your wrist. A long time ago, Control keys were next to the A key, but some idiot decided to move it to the corner.
The idea is that you can keep you hands positioned over the keyboard (touch typing obviously) without having to move around your hands, including things like cursor keys (HJKL).
IMO, anything less is just plain clumsy.
Abhishek Chavan replied on Fri, 2012/10/12 - 12:38pm
Lukas Eder replied on Tue, 2012/10/16 - 10:18am
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Abhishek Chavan