Eclipse Tips & Tricks from a JDT Developer

Manju MathewEclipse JDT UI CommitterIBM Software Labs

Mother of all shortcuts

Ctrl + Shift + L

PS: May be the father is Ctrl + 3

Smart Step Into Selection

Ctrl + F5orCtrl + Alt + Click

Basic editing shortcuts

Expand SelectionAlt + Shift + Up

Alt + Shift + Left

Alt + Shift + Right

Move LinesAlt + Up

Alt + Down

Copy and Move LinesCtrl + Alt + Down

Ctrl + Alt + Up

Delete LineCtrl + D

Comment LineCtrl + /

Quick Fix & Quick Assist

Ctrl + 1

Show Annotations

Spy

Plugin SpyAlt + Shift + F1

Plugin Menu SpyAlt + Shift + F2

Declaration & Javadoc View

Finding bad code

Potential programming problems

Unneccessary code

Null analysis

Windows > Preferences > Java > Compiler > Errors/Warnings

Contributing to Eclipse

Forums

http://www.eclipse.org/forums

Bugzilla

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/

Contributing Patches

http://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_UI/How_to_Contribute

Different contribution channels

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27/09/2013

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30 September 2013