I was attending the “The Productive Programmer: Mechanics” session, held by Neal Ford, at Oredev last week and I wanted to share one trick that will more or less force you to get faster when developing in Eclipse.
The Eclipse plug-in MouseFeed, written by Andriy Palamarchuk, will repeatedly nag you with what keyboard shortcuts you can use instead of using the mouse to perform actions. For example, if you constantly left-mouse-click the “step-over” button in the debug perspective, the MouseFeed plug-in will pop-up a notification window telling you to instead press “F6” on your keyboard.
You can also make the plug-in even more annoying by having MouseFeed canceling the mouse operation so that you have to use the keyboard shortcut.
I have installed it and forgotten about it until today, when it gently reminded me that collapsing all nodes in the Package Explorer view could be issued by “Shift-Command Numpad_Divide” on Mac OS X. Unfortunately my laptop does not come with a numeric keyboard so I have better to remap the shortcut if I find myself collapsing nodes often.
The MouseFeed home page can be found at: http://www.mousefeed.com
The SourceForge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mousefeed
Thank you very much, that is a very helpful plugin.
This would be useful for general Java applications, for example written in Swing, to make users of applications learn keyboard shortcuts for actions faster and in a smooth way.
I wonder if there exist a library like this. Do you know? I have searched myself, but not found.
here is my list of useful eclipse shortcut I would rather say very useful and practical eclipse shortcut :)
Thanks
Javin Paul
FIX Protocol tutorial
my favorite shortcut is the expansion of sysout to System.out.println