Eclipse Day 2013

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Eclipse Tips & Tricks –
from a JDT Developer
Manju Mathew
Eclipse JDT UI Committer
IBM Software Labs

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Mother of all shortcuts
Ctrl + Shift + L
PS: May be the father is Ctrl + 3

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Smart Step Into Selection
Ctrl + F5
or
Ctrl + Alt + Click

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Basic editing shortcuts
● Expand Selection
● Alt + Shift + Up
● Alt + Shift + Left
● Alt + Shift + Right
● Move Lines
● Alt + Up
● Alt + Down
● Copy and Move Lines
● Ctrl + Alt + Down
● Ctrl + Alt + Up
● Delete Line
● Ctrl + D
● Comment Line
● Ctrl + /

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Quick Fix & Quick Assist
Ctrl + 1

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Show Annotations

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Spy
Plugin Spy
Alt + Shift + F1
Plugin Menu Spy
Alt + Shift + F2

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Declaration & Javadoc View

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Finding bad code
● Potential programming problems
● Unneccessary code
● Null analysis
Windows > Preferences > Java > Compiler > Errors/Warnings

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Contributing to Eclipse

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 Forums
– http://www.eclipse.org/forums
 Bugzilla
– https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/
 Contributing Patches
– http://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_UI/How_to_Contribute
Different contribution channels

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