Eclipse tips: keyboard shortcuts

You can spot a proper geek by how quickly they can work their tools, ideally without touching the mouse. Like any IDE, Eclipse has plenty of keyboard shortcuts, but one is a little special. Press Ctrl+Shift+L and Eclipse shows you a list of all the available shortcuts and what they do.

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My favorite is Alt+Shift+L for Extract Local Variable. To try it, type new ArrayList() in the code editor, select the whole expression, and press the shortcut.