Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Eclipse IDE tips

Often I hate with Eclipse editor is, switching between editor. I mean if you have multiple java files opened with eclipse one way to switch between 'next files' using default shortcut 'CTRL + F6'. To do that ideally you have to use your both hand to handle it. I mean F6 key is all the way up on the top where as CTRL key is all the way down to the keyboard.



You can change this default behaviour and make it 'CTRL + Tab' like other windows application. To do that make a 'Binding' for the command Next Editor under Window > Preferences > General > Keys.



After changing this, you can pretty much switch between files easily with your left hand.



I'd ask every programmer to think all these kind of small small things to make their life better.