Eclipse IDE Keyboard Shortcuts

Eclipse IDE Keyboard Shortcuts for Developers

Eclipse IDE is widely used by developers. Eclipse IDE comes with lots of keyboard shortcuts. One should aware of these shortcuts and should use them to make development faster. Following are few shortcuts of eclipse:

Ctrl + S : Save One File          

Ctrl + Shift + S : Save All Opened Files         

Ctrl + N : Open the New Dialog          

Ctrl + 1 : Quick Fix

Ctrl + A : Select All

Ctrl + Shift + F : Format highlighted lines of code or all if none selected

Ctrl + Shift + O : Organize Imports   

Shift + F2 : Open External Javadoc    

Ctrl + Space : Content Assist            

Ctrl + Shift + P : Go to matching bracket or parenthesis     

Ctrl + Shift + R : Open a file/jump to a file

Ctrl + Shift + T : Open a type (e.g.: a class, an interface) without clicking through interminable list of packages

Ctrl + L : Go to line number N in the source file

Ctrl + Q : Go to the last edit location

Ctrl + / : Comment out all lines of code that are highlighted

CTRL + F8 : Shortcut for switching perspectives

CTRL + Shift + Delete : Delete until end of line

CTRL + Delete : Delete next element

CTRL + Backspace : Delete previous element

CTRL + Up / Down : Scroll up / down a line in the editor

Ctrl + F : Find / Replace

Ctrl + O : Go directly to a member (method, variable) of a huge class file

Ctrl + E : Go to other open editors

Ctrl + Shift + F4 : Close all Opened Editors

Alt + Shift + R : For Rename the file

Alt + Shift + L : Extract to Local Variable

Alt + Shift + M : Extract to Method

F3 : Open Declaration

Alt + Shift + X, J : Run As Java Application

Alt + Shift + D, J : Debug As Java Application

Alt + Shift + W : Show the class in the package view.

Ctrl + T : Type hierarchy. Go to a supertype/subtype

Ctrl + Q : Last edit

Alt + Left : Backward History

Alt + Right : Forward History

Ctrl + 1 : Quick Fix

Ctrl + A : Select All

Alt + Shift + S + R : Generate getter and setter methods

Crtl + D : Delete entire line of code

Ctrl + F4 : Close file

Alt + Up Arrow : Move the selected line of code up

Alt + Down Arrow : Move the selected line of code down

Ctrl + H : Search workspace

Ctrl + Shift + Arrow Keys : Jump between methods up/down

Ctrl + Shift + Y/X : Converts to lowercase/uppercase

Ctrl + Shift + U : Show Occurences in File quick menu

Ctrl + Shift + L : Show Key Assist

Ctrl + Shift + G : Find references in workspace

Ctrl + G : Find declarations in workspace

Ctrl + Alt + H : Open call hierarchy

F5 : Refresh