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Eclipse offers commands to work efficiently with the keyboard when many editors and views are opened side by side.

Context

By default, Eclipse opens editors stacked in the Editor area. Around this Editor area, views are arranged in View areas that are grouped on the left, bottom, and right. Views might be stacked in these View areas.

Procedure

Use the Start of the navigation path Window Next navigation step Navigation End of the navigation path menu to find functions to manage editors and views.
Note Some of these functions will be explained in this section.

Switching Editors

You can navigate between several opened editors.

Procedure

  1. Using the Switch to Editor dialog:
    1. To open the Switch to Editor dialog, choose the Shift Ctrl E shortcut.
    2. Select the editor you want using the arrow keys.
    3. To switch to the selected editor, choose Enter.
      Note You can also use this dialog to manage your open editors. You can do this by proceeding as follows:
      1. Select the editors you want to close.
      2. Choose the Close selected editors button.
  2. Using the Next Editor command:
    1. To switch to the next editor(s), choose Ctrl F6.
    2. To open an editor switcher window with a list of opened documents, choose Ctrl F6 again.
    3. To move onto the selection of the next list item, hold the Ctrl key and choose F6.
      The editor title will be announced.
    4. As soon as you have found the corresponding list item, release Ctrl

Results

The selected editor will receive focus.

Switching Views

You can navigate between several opened views.

Context

You can switch between views using the following shortcuts:

Procedure

  1. To open a view switcher window with a list of views given in the last used order, choose Ctrl F7.
    Note As long as you choose and hold the Ctrl key and choose again F7, the selection will go to the next view until you release the key.
  2. To set the selected view in focus, release the Ctrl key
  3. To return the focus immediately from any view to the last used editor, choose F12.
    Note If this editor is invisible, it will automatically become visible after choosing F12.
    The focus will move to the last used editor.
  4. To be able to take a look at properties or variables while you are in debugging mode, assign your own key combinations for these purposes.
    Note Eclipse does not provide default key combinations to move focus into the properties view or variables view.
    Recommendation SAP recommends adding customer-specific shortcuts for frequently used views to the corresponding Show View commands.
  5. To open the Show Views dialog, choose Alt Shift Q.

    Each view has a character assigned in this dialog. Example: Show View (Breakpoints): B

    To open the corresponding view directly without searching through the list, choose Alt Shift Q. As soon as the dialog is opened, choose this character.

  6. To search and open a view from the Show View dialog, choose Enter.

Switching Perspectives

Context

You can switch between perspectives using the following shortcut:

Procedure

To switch to the next or previous perspective, choose the Ctrl F8 and Shift Ctrl F8 shortcuts, respectively.