| WSAD Shortcuts |
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| Navigational Shortcuts | |
| Ctrl+L | Go to line number. |
| Ctrl+I | Indent the highlighted text. |
| Ctrl+Q | Goto last modified editor position |
| Ctrl+K | Go to next occurrence of the selected text |
| Ctrl+Shift+K | Go to previous occurrence of the selected text |
| Ctrl+F6 | Navigate between open Editors (or, files in an editor) |
| Ctrl+F7 | Navigate between open Views |
| Ctrl+F8 | Navigate between open Perspectives |
| Ctrl+Shift+P | Navigating to Matching braces |
| F12 | Jump to the open Editor |
| Ctrl+Shift+W | List all files open in an editor |
| Alt+left arrow | Back (last editing position) |
| Alt+right arrow | Forward (next editing position) |
| Coding Assistants | |
| Ctrl+Space | Brings up coding/context assistant. Make required selection and press enter or, double click. After selection, Javadoc will appear in hover Help. |
| Ctrl+Shift+M | Add import |
| Ctrl+Shift+O | Organize Imports |
| Ctrl+B | Executes an incremental build of a project in the navigation view |
| Ctrl+E | Goes to the next error. |
| Alt+Shift+M | Extract Method |
| Alt+Shift+R | Rename method/variable |
| Ctrl+Shift+F | Format Code |
| Ctrl+Shift+E | Delete till end-of-line |
| Search Shortcuts | |
| F3 | Open Declaration of Selected Element |
| F4 | Open hierarchy |
| Ctrl+F | Find/replace |
| Ctrl+H | Brings up Java search with the selected item in the search table. |
| Ctrl+Shift+T Or Ctrl+Shift+H |
Type Browser:- Search a class/interface by typing it’s name (wildcards: ‘*’ and ‘?’ can also be used) “Ctrl+Shift+H” brings up Hierarchical Browser… works much the same as Type Browser! |
| Ctrl+Shift+G | Search References in workspace |
| Ctrl+O | Search data-members or methods in the Class (works similar to Ctrl+Shift+T ,i.e, type search… but the scope is only the current Class file open in the editor) |
| Ctrl+Shift+U | Search occurrences (of selected methodName or dataMember) within the same Class file. |
| New features in Workbench | ||
| 1. | Users can now customize the key bindings (Key short-cuts) using preferences. Windows-> Preferences->Workbench-> Keys |
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Editor now keeps the Navigation history. So if you open a second editor you can use Navigate ->Back option to go back. One can also use key shortcut Alt + Left arrow.
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| 3. | Text editor has improved to provide line numbers , current line highlighting , print margins etc. | |
| 4. | There is a new Ant view (Window > Show View > Ant) that makes it easier to run Ant buildfiles. | |
| 5. | There is a new Ant editor that makes it easier to edit Ant buildfiles. The Ant editor provides content assist, syntax highlighting, an outline, and error reporting | |
