IDE Shortcuts for Eclipse Developers

April 20th, 2009 7:52 am

Eclipse have been my favorite Java IDE since I started coding in Java. Shortcuts makes life very easy when you are working with any IDE. Eclipse also comes with lot of shortcuts that makes like of a developer easy.

Following are few shortcuts of my choice.

1. Ctrl + Shift + O : Organize imports
2. Ctrl + / : Line Comment
3. Ctrl + Shift + T : Open Type
4. Ctrl + O : Open declarations
5. Ctrl + E : Open Editor
6. Ctrl + Shift + F4 : Close all Opened Editors
7. Alt + Shift + R : Rename
8. Alt + Shift + L : Extract to Local Variable
9. Alt + Shift + M : Extract to Method
10. F3 : Open Declaration
11. Alt + Shift + X : Run As…
12. Alt + Shift + D : Debug As…
13. Alt + Shift + W : show the class in the package view.
14. Ctrl + T : Type hierarchy
15. Ctrl+Q : Last edit
16. Alt + Left or Alt + Right : Navigate Left and Right
17. Ctrl + 1 : Quick Fix
18. Ctrl + Space : Content Assist
19. Alt + Shift + F : Format code
20. Alt + Shift + S + R : Generate getter and setter methods