Shortcuts:

• 1. Code Completion – Ctrl + Space

  Well, since the very beginning and up to now, this is indubitably my favorite shortcut and probably the most used by developers all over the world.

• 2. Quickly Move Trough Text and Quickly Select Text – Ctrl + Arrow Left/Right and Ctrl + Shift + Arrow Left/Right

  Not exactly Eclipse shortcut, I don’t even know what its official name is, but I use it all the time to quickly move through words.

• 3. Delete Line – Ctrl + d

  Deletes whole line or selected lines. Comes in very handy

• 4. Quick Fix – Ctrl + 1

  This combination offers tips to fix the compilation error. Very useful so you don’t have to move mouse cursor to that small sign at the beginning of the line.

• 5. Open Type – Ctrl + T and Open Resource Ctrl + R

  Supports wildcards for searching through files.

• 6. Generate Source Code – Shift + Alt + S

  This shortcut opens a menu, which provides us with various different possible pieces of code Eclipse can generate for us. Some of the combinations are:

  • Create constructor using fields – Shift + Alt + S O
  • Create constructors from superclass – Shift + Alt + S C
  • Generate getters and setters – Shift + Alt + S R
  • Override/implement methods – Shift + Alt + S C

• 7. Move To Next/Previus Error – Ctrl + . and Ctrl + ,

  – This way one can quickly jump from one error/warning to another. The only problem with this shortcut is, that you can’t configure it in a way, that it would skip warnings. Or at least I wasn’t able to

• Jump To Point Of Last Edit – Ctrl + Q

  – Jump to position in a file (even if you are in different tab), where you edited it the last time.

• Show Outline of Class – Ctrl + O

  – Offers a great way to quickly search for a method in a class or check out its methods.

• Show All Shortcuts – Ctrl + Shift + L

  – This one comes in handy With this shortcut you can quickly find a combination you can’t remember at the moment .

Well, these are my favorites, but I use others as well. I would definitely put shortcuts like format file, indent all lines, organize imports etc , but I configured Eclipse to do these things on file save. That way is even faster and more effortless than using shortcuts . I hope I inspired someone to let the tool take care of tedious tasks like generating getters and setters and use extra time to be more productive …