A List of The Most USEFUL Hotkeys for Eclipse IDE. Learn ALL under 10 Minutes!

Amazon Eclipse IDE is one of the most popular integrated development environments for developers all over the world The list of actions that can be bound to hot keys and shortcut keys in Eclipse is huge, meaning you can use hot keys to easily perform a specific task to save time.

In fact if you save 3 seconds to take an action by using hot keys instead of using mouse and you take 100 such actions you save 300 seconds!

By the way I am using Eclipse for PHP Developers Version: 3.0.2
Some hot keys are INCREDIBLY useful but not many developers are aware of them, such as by default you can use 'Control + Shift + >' to find the matching HTML tag. Do you have any idea how useful it is? In a complex HTML document using hot keys could save you tens of seconds!

A Table of the MOST Useful Hot Keys in Eclipse that Every Developer MUST Learn!

Action	Hot Key	Note
Content assist	Alt+/	Default hot key is Alt+/. I recommend that you change it to Control+Space in Windows -> Preferences -> General -> Keys
Find matching parenthesis	Control+Shift+P	For example if you place cursor at { of some 'if' statement and press this hot key, cursor will jump to } of that 'if' statement. Press the hot key again to jump back.
Find matching HTML tag	Control+Shift+>	For example if you place cursor at <body> in an HTML document and press this hot key, cursor will jump to </body>. Press the hot key again to jump back. I found it to work with only HTML tags.
Delete a line	Control+D
Go to last edit location	Control+Q	Control+Q takes you back to the place where you last made a change. Use this hot key in conjunction with Alt+Left Arrow as you will find these hot keys complement each other!
Where was I?	Alt+Left Arrow	Workbench editors keep a navigation history. If you open a second editor while you're editing, you can press Alt+Left Arrow to go back to the last editor. This makes working with several editors a whole lot easier. Use 'Alt+Right Arrow' to go forward. Use this hot key in conjunction with Control+Q as you will find these hot keys complement each other!
Search for a file	Control+Shift+R	Control+Shift+R brings up a dialog that allows you to quickly locate and open any file in the workspace. This hot key works on every type of file in your workspace!
Move a line up	Alt+Up arrow
Move a line down	Alt+Down arrow
Copy current line up	Control+Alt+Up arrow
Copy current line down	Control+Alt+Down arrow

You won't be sorry.

A Table of Useful Shortcut Keys in Eclipse

Action	Hot Key	Note
Delete previous word	Control+Backspace
Delete next word	Control+Delete
Delete to end of line	Control+Shift+Delete
Quickly switch editor	Control+E	You can quickly switch editors using the Control+E which opens a list of all open editors. The list supports type-ahead to find the editor as well as allows you to close editors using a popup menu or the Delete key.