Eclipse Tool Tip #4: Key Assist

Every once in a while you need an assist, well, Eclipse gives it to you. Go to Help > Key Assist to open a dialog containing a lot of short cuts to different Eclipse functionality such as Content Assist (ctrl+space) to Word Complete (alt+/). The hot key short cuts I use the most are ctrl+shift+r to open a resource, ctrl+shift+t to open a type, and ctrl+t to display the type hierarchy, ctrl+shift+f for code format and ctrl+space for content assists amonst others. But if you forget all other hot keys, just remember ctrl+shift+l to open the Key Assist.

Related posts:

  1. Eclipse Tool Tip #6: Quick Find
  2. Eclipse Tool Tip #5: Templates
  3. Eclipse Tool Tip #7: Resource and Class Type Find
  4. Eclipse Tool Tip #3: Code Perspective
  5. Eclipse Tool Tip #2: Local History

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One Comment

  1. Jeff
    Posted August 28, 2008 at 11:41 am | Permalink

    Now I finally know how to open a class when you only know the name and not the path! Works just like that neat dialog in IDEA, and now my coworkers can no longer mock me for lacking that functionality. :D

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