Comments on: Pro eclipse keyboard navigation

By: Johan Vosloo

Johan Vosloo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:33:54 +0000

While ctrl+e is cute, it sometimes is still handy to just quickly flip back and forth between one or two open files.

However, one of the 1st customizations I make to a new Eclipse workspace is to remap the ctrl+F6 key to ctrl+tab (and the ctrl+shift+F6 to ctrl+shift+tab), via Preferences -> General -> Keys.

I don’t know about you – but I can’t reach ctrl+F6 with one hand, whilst ctrl+tab is very easy one-handed (and common) combination.

By: Andries Inzé

Andries Inzé — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:46:09 +0000

Indeed, ctrl+e is much faster. Thanks for the tip!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:09:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing ctrl+t, that’s the only one from your list I hadn’t used yet.

Personally, I like ctrl+e more than ctrl+f6, as you can quickly filter this list by typing a part of the filename (supports wildcards!).