FlexBuilder / Eclipse keyboard shortcuts that will change your life

9 Responses to FlexBuilder / Eclipse keyboard shortcuts that will change your life

1. Erik says:

   May 2, 2009 at 2:00 am

   I am not sure if it’s the same on the Mac, but the following are nice aswell:

   Command + E = Switch between open editor (or tab)
   Command + K = Jump to next occurrence of selected text

   Greetz Erik
2. Mark Walters says:

   May 3, 2009 at 6:03 pm

   Command + Shift + F = Find / Replace through entire project or working set.
   Command + Shift + K = Jump to previous occurrence of selected text
3. Mark Walters says:

   May 14, 2009 at 12:36 am

   Noticed a couple of differences running through all of the commands, not sure if its just me or if the following are the correct shortcuts:

   Command + / = Comment / uncomment the selected line using an inline comment (//)
   Option + UP = Move the selected line up
   Option + DOWN = Move the selected line down
   Command + Shift + X = Make selected text ALL CAPS
   Command + Shift + Y = Make selected text all lowercase
   Command + Shift + F = Search (rather than find) allows you to search within the entire workspace

   … and the following are the correct descriptions:

   Command + Shift + D = Add ASDoc style comment in .as file and CDATA tags in .mxml file
   Command + D = Delete the text on the selected line
4. Guy says:

   May 18, 2009 at 1:35 pm

   Any idea how to Fold / UnFold the current function?

   How about folding / unfolding all functions?

   (at least on my machine, the keyboard shortcuts for these – cmd + numpad / do not work)

   I would love some help…
5. onedayitwillmake says:

   May 19, 2009 at 9:19 pm

   Could you make an attached printable text file or whatever out of this posting.

   It’s pretty great, I know you could copy paste (and i have), but i think it would benefit others plus if you have new additions.
6. Mims H Wright says:

   May 26, 2009 at 8:40 pm

   I’ve seen a couple of changes in Gumbo, most notably COMMAND + O instead of CONTROL + O to see a list of definitions.

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8. david torres says:

   January 21, 2010 at 7:36 pm

   Really cool stuff, thanks for the post! I found a few differences in the windows platform (have to use it at work!) … here’s the list of shortcuts for windows:

   • Control + O = Open an outline of functions within the current class to jump to.
   • Control + Shift + T = Jump to a type (class or interface). Only works when an .as or .mxml file is open.
   • Control + Shift + R = Jump to a resource. Includes classes and any other files (such as XML files)
   • Control + L = Jump to a line number
   • Control + Shift + C = Wrap / Unwrap selected text in a block comment (/* */)
   • Control + / = Comment / uncomment the selected line using an inline comment (//)
   • Control + Shift + D = Add ASDoc style comment
   • Control + D = Delete the selected text
   • Alt + UP = Move the selected up
   • Alt + DOWN = Move the selected text down
   • Control + Alt + UP or DOWN = Duplicate the selected text above or below the selected line
   • Control + Shift + X = Make selected text ALL CAPS
   • Control + Shift + Y = Make selected text all lowercase
   • Control + Alt + R = Rename selected element (using refactor)
   • Control + M = Maximize / Minimize current view
   • Control + Tab = Jump to an open file editor
   • Control + Shift + L = Keyboard command list. Press it again to edit commands.
   • Control + F = Find / Replace dialog.
   • Control + Shift + G = Find any references to the selected element within your project
   • Control + Click or F3 = Jump to the definition of the selected element
   • Control + J = Find within document. Type the word you want to find then use up and down to skip between instances. Press ESC to cancel.
   • Control + Shift + P = Jump to matching bracket. e.g. jump from } to {
   • Control + H = Search (rather than find) allows you to search within the entire workspace.
   • Tab / Shift + Tab = Indent / Un-indent selected text.
   • Alt + Left / Right = Jumps to the location of the previous / next edit without undoing your change.
   • Control + E = Switch between open editor (or tab)
   • Control + K = Jump to next occurrence of selected text
9. Garry Schafer says:

   March 17, 2010 at 12:59 pm

   I’m curious – I’ve got both but in FB tab autocompletes, but in eclipse it seems to actually tab away.. how to fix that?