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Top 30 Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts for Java Programmer

This tutorial is about 30 Eclipse keyboard
shortcuts, this list is by no means complete and
I will suggest you guys to share eclipse shortcuts
listed other than here to make this more useful.
Eclipse is the most used Java development IDE
and knowing Eclipse shortcuts not only
improve your productivity but also makes you
more efficient. You will have more time for
things you like to do. Using keyboard shortcuts
also helps to impress colleagues and shows that
you have a good hold on tools you used for Java
Development. If you are a Java developer, who
use Eclipse as its main IDE for all coding, development, and debugging purpose, then I also
suggest you to take a look at The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse, 2nd Edition, one of the
best book to learn how to use Eclipse from Java programmer's perspective.

I was big fan of Netbeans IDE before coming across Eclipse because I was from J2ME
background and Netbeans provide sophisticated IDE environment to enable you to build,
debug and run your Java application in various emulator including some advanced processing
options e.g. preprocessing, setting up Exception breakpoint etc. From that time I love to
know keyboard shortcuts on IDE and other tools, I used for development including Edit Plus,
Microsoft Excel etc.

But when I join an investment bank I came across Eclipse IDE, since everybody in my team is
using and Netbeans IDE was not available in company (dont know why that wasnot allowed
netbeans even though it was free) I have decided to go Eclipse way, later I found that Eclipse
was most suited for that application given some of cool feature of eclipse e. g. Remote
Debugging, Conditional Breakpoints, Exception breakpoints and Ctrl+T and Ctrl+R kind of
shortcuts.

Here I am sharing a list of 30 Eclipse keyboard shortcuts which I found most useful and using
in my day to day life while writing code, reading the code or debuggingJava application in
Eclipse.

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30 Useful Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts for Java Programmers
Here is my list of 30 chosen Eclipse IDE keyboard shortcuts for Java developers. It's useful for
both core Java developer and Java web application developer using Eclipse IDE for web

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1)Ctrl + Shift +T for finding class even from jar

This keyboard shortcut in Eclipse is my most used and favorite shortcut. While working with a
highspeed trading system which has a complex code, I often need to find classes with the
just blink of the eye and this eclipse keyboard shortcut is just made for that. No matter
whether you have class in your application or inside any JAR, this shortcut will find it.

2)Ctrl + Shift +R for finding any resource (file) including config xml files

This is similar to above Eclipse shortcut with only difference that it can find out not only Java
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Eclipse Shortcut for Quick Navigation
In this section, we will see some eclipse keyboard shortcut which helps to quickly navigate
within the file and between file while reading and writing code in Eclipse.

7) Ctrl + o for quick outline going quickly to method

9) Alt + right and Alt + leftfor going back and forth while editing.
12) Alt + Shift + W for show in package explorer
13) Ctrl + Shift + Up and down for navigating from member to member (variables and
methods)
15) Ctrl + k and Ctrl + Shift +K for find next/previous
24) Go to a type declaration: F3, This Eclipse shortcut is very useful to see function definition
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10) Ctrl + F4 or Ctrl + wfor closing current file
11) Ctrl+Shirt+Wfor closing all files.
14) Ctrl + l go to line
16) Select text and press Ctrl + Shift + F for formatting.
17) Ctrl + F for find, find/replace
18) Ctrl + D to delete a line
19) Ctrl + Q for going to last edited place

Miscellaneous Eclipse Shortcuts

These are different Eclipse keyboard shortcuts which doesnt fit on any category but quite
helpful and make life very easy while working in Eclipse.

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20) Ctrl + T for toggling between supertype and subtype

21) Go to other open editors: Ctrl + E.
22) Move to one problem (i.e.: error, warning) to the next (or previous) in a file: Ctrl +. For
next, and Ctrl +, for the previous problem
23) Hop back and forth through the files you have visited: Alt + and Alt + , respectively.
25) CTRL+Shift+G, which searches the workspace for references to the selected method or
variable
26) Ctrl+Shift+L to view listing for all Eclipse keyboard shortcuts.
27) Alt + Shift + jto add Javadoc at any place in java source file.
28)CTRL+SHIFT+P to find closing brace. Place the cursor at the opening brace and use this.
29) Alt+Shift+X, Qto run Ant build file using keyboard shortcuts in Eclipse.
30) Ctrl + Shift +Ffor Autoformatting.

Here is the nice image to remember these useful Eclipse shortcuts for Java programmers:

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If you havesome more useful Eclipse keyboard shortcutsthen please post as comments, I
will include them in this list. These Eclipse shortcuts will mostly work almost all Eclipse
versions e.g. 3.5, 3.6 Helios, Eclipse Ganymede and Indigo. Let me know if you face any issue
while using these Eclipse shortcuts in any particular version of Eclipse IDE.
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30 comments :
Gautam said...
Good list of short cuts. Should have mentioned CtrlShiftL to get this list and CtrlShiftL twice to customize it.

January 22, 2011 at 8:08 PM

Anonymous said...
1) Ctrl + T for finding class even from jar

Ctrl + T is the shortcut for Quick Hierarchy (Show the quick hierarchy of the selected element)

April 5, 2011 at 5:32 PM

Anonymous said...
1) Ctrl + Shift + T for finding class even from jar
2) Ctrl + Shift + R for finding any resource (file) including config xml files

April 6, 2011 at 1:41 AM

Javin Paul said...

Thanks for your comment Anonymous. yes Ctrl + Shift + T can be used to find classes from jar and that's what the
difference between Ctrl + Shift + T and Ctrl + Shift + R. I also used Ctrl + Shift + T to findout which class comes first
in classpath and its very useful if you have two classes with same name in two jar's and both jar in your classpath
and one of them work and other doesn't.

April 15, 2011 at 8:00 PM

Javin Paul said...

Thanks for your comment Keyboard shortcuts I visited your site and it has really good collection of keyboard shortcuts
for various technology including eclipse 3.0.

April 15, 2011 at 8:01 PM

Javin Paul said...

Thanks Gautam for informing us about CtrlShiftL. I have included in main list for benefit of we all.

April 15, 2011 at 8:02 PM

Javin Paul said...

Thanks Anonymous, Its good to know that these eclipse keyboard shortcuts are useful for you.

April 15, 2011 at 8:03 PM

Anonymous said...
To go along with #28 Ctrl+Shift+P, I find Alt+Shift+UpArrow or Alt+Shift+DownArrow useful when both braces are not
visible on the same screen.

Place the cursor next to the brace you want to match, then Alt+Shift+UpArrow and the matching braces and the code
in between will be highlighted. Pressing Alt+Shift+UpArrow again expands the selection further. The highlighting can
make brace matching much more evident.

Furthermore, this highlighting can be used on any logical block of code put the cursor in the middle of any word (a
string, a method,...) and try it.

May 16, 2011 at 9:16 AM

Anonymous said...
Ctrl+j = incremental search is superior to Ctrl+f and essential for code navigation, means just Ctrl+j and type on. It
will jump to the first match. Use Ctrl+j or Arrow down for the next match and Ctrl+Shift+j or Arrow up to move
backwards

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//Gilbert

September 8, 2011 at 2:58 PM

Javin @ java.lang.unsupportedclassversionerror said...

@Anonymous thanks for your valuable suggestion, this eclipse shortcut indeed sounds quite useful , going to try it.

September 9, 2011 at 4:47 AM

Anonymous said...
ctrl+shift+l displays list of all keyboard shortcuts

September 30, 2011 at 8:20 AM

Abhijeet S. Sutar said...

A Master Shortcut CTRL+3

October 29, 2011 at 11:45 AM

Sandeep Kumar said...

Thanks Javin for this nice post. I've also compiled a list of useful Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts and also uploaded a
video showing how to use these shortcuts while programming.

Eclipse IDE Keyboard Shortcuts for Developers

December 13, 2011 at 9:03 AM

Soya said...
My Favroties :

Eclipse shortcuts to comment and uncomment

Eclipse shortcut to formatting
Eclipse shortcut to finding Type information
Eclipse shortcut to remove all unused imports
Eclipse shortcut to run Java program
Eclipse shortcut to debug Java program

Thanks
Soya

October 10, 2012 at 3:33 AM

Anonymous said...
What is Eclipse shortcut for static import in Java 5 ? is there any keyword shortcut to go from top of the page to
bottom of page in Java Editor window ?

October 10, 2012 at 3:42 AM

Ravindra said...
is there any book to learn Eclipse IDE? I want to master this IDE and increase my productivity by learning lots of tips,
tricks and shortcuts. please let me know, if there is any comprehensive tutorial or book exists for Eclipse.

June 12, 2013 at 1:21 AM

Anonymous said...
One of the keyboard shortcut I often use is Alt +Shift +s and Generate getter and Setters to generate automatic code
mainly getter and setter.

May 6, 2014 at 1:20 AM

AndreAgosto said...
For editor i find very useful CTRL + ALT + up(or down) to duplicate a line (or all lines selected)
also CTRL + D to delete a line (or all lines selected) is very useful

May 12, 2014 at 12:15 AM

Anonymous said...
Ctrl + Home go to top of the document
Ctrl + End go to bottom of the document

July 3, 2014 at 5:04 PM

Anonymous said...
F12 to switch back to editor

January 30, 2015 at 9:48 AM

ANUPAM KUMAR said...

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HI .. Use Ctrl + Shift + / (from Numpad) to shrink all methods at once
and Ctrl + Shift + * (from Numpad) to expand all shrinked methods

April 2, 2015 at 10:54 PM

Gouthami M said...
alt+shift+s+r for setters and getters
alt+l to select

October 9, 2015 at 9:45 PM

Diwakar Choudhary said...

ctrl + shift + i = for indentation

October 10, 2015 at 10:35 AM

Jonas Fredriksson said...

To get Ctrl + Tab with most recent used (MRU) behaviour, change key shortcuts:
"Next Editor" = Ctrl + Tab
"Previous Editor" = Ctrl + Shift + Tab
First thing I do in every Eclipse installation.

October 11, 2015 at 10:13 AM

Anonymous said...
I mostly use Ctrl + Shift + F to format source code in Eclipse.

June 6, 2016 at 7:41 PM

shivshankar pal said...

CTRL+E To navigate between open editor tabs.

June 10, 2016 at 5:05 AM

Unknown said...
sysout+crtl+space=System.out.pritln

June 21, 2016 at 10:17 PM

Javin Paul said...

@Unknown, good one, I used it daily :)

June 22, 2016 at 4:53 AM

shahjade alam said...

What is the short key for write public static void main(String args[])

August 17, 2016 at 6:02 AM

Anonymous said...
This is an awesome java cheat sheet!
These shortcuts really help me out coding faster:
Ctrl + o
Ctrl + l
Ctrl + Shift + Up

I need to print them out!

November 21, 2016 at 3:41 AM

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