Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts

21 Responses to Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts

1. guest says:

   October 12, 2003 at 10:11 am

   Ctrl+F6 will work.

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2. TheDane says:

   February 3, 2004 at 2:49 am

   I love that feature (Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+F6 is too clumsy) too, so I just overloaded it in Eclipse:

   Window -> Preferences -> Workbench -> Keys -> Window -> Next Editor

   Similar for ‘Previous Editor’

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   • Victor says:

     February 27, 2012 at 2:12 am

     thanks!!!!!!

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   • Victor says:

     April 17, 2012 at 8:53 am

     thanks again, you are genius

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3. CtrlTabForAllApplications says:

   February 27, 2004 at 9:46 am

   Thank you for this, you saved my life!

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4. ThankGodForBlogs says:

   September 14, 2004 at 11:23 am

   Me too – thanks! (Why on Earth do they map it by default to CTRL-F6?? It’s not exactly handy for the most common window operation…)

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5. ML says:

   September 27, 2004 at 5:03 pm

   Stumbled upon this blog while looking for comprehensive keyboard binding table for Eclipse. Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn changes focus to previous/next editor respectively..

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6. Setting it to Ctrl+Tab: says:

   October 11, 2006 at 8:35 am

   In my version of eclipse I had ‘General’ rather than ‘Workbench’ (maybe it’s because I’m using the Sonic Workbench, which is built on eclipse):
   Window -> Preferences -> General -> Keys -> Window -> Next Editor

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7. Sandeep Giri says:

   July 6, 2007 at 9:36 am

   You can set it also.
   Window->Preferences->General->Keys and select “Next Editor”.
   Now select the text in “Binding” textbox using mouse and do right Click and “Cut”. Now the Binding box would be blank.
   Now, press CTRL key and Tab togather and press “OK”.

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   • jnana says:

     December 6, 2012 at 1:30 am

     Thanks

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8. cpomp says:

   September 25, 2008 at 2:27 pm

   Great post, just what I was looking for.

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9. C.Gleerup says:

   August 7, 2009 at 11:54 pm

   thank you, I was really getting pissed about hitting ctrl-tab repeately and nothing happended
   WHY do the eclipse team not use a key probably a lot of users are used to

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10. Anand Agrawal says:

    September 7, 2009 at 12:40 am

    Hi TheDane,

    Thanx for ur help

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11. Javin Paul says:

    January 8, 2011 at 4:53 am

    here is my list of useful eclipse shortcut I would rather say very useful and practical eclipse shortcut

    Thanks
    Javin Paul
    FIX Protocol tutorial

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12. Aram says:

    March 21, 2011 at 4:30 am

    Thanks a lot !!!

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13. mm says:

    October 9, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    Thanks

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14. André says:

    October 13, 2011 at 6:18 am

    thx! thats good!

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15. Akabelle says:

    November 5, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    Thank you so much!!! You saved my nerves…

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16. travers says:

    December 13, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    I’ve bound ctrl+tab to the ‘next editor’ function in eclipse, but still not totally satisfied.
    when i release the ctrl button it doesn’t switch to the editor i’ve selected until I hit enter… sooo annoying… I wish I didn’t have to hit ENTER after ctrl+tab’ing through my list of open files… blah

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17. eran says:

    April 11, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    for me alt + arrow also opened the last file i’v already closed so i found that if I press
    ctrl+shift+tab now underline added to the tab . After that you can just press shift + left arrow or right arrow and this will do the work perfectly.

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18. john says:

    May 1, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    Thank You!

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