Comments on: FlexBuilder / Eclipse keyboard shortcuts that will change your life

By: Garry Schafer

Garry Schafer — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:59:53 +0000

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?

By: david torres

david torres — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:36:16 +0000

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

By: RBLAB » Eclipse 3.5 and FDT 3.2 for Actionscript development – Part 5 – Keyboard Shortcuts - Blog of Riccardo Bartoli on Flash and Actionscript

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:49:49 +0000

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By: Mims H Wright

Mims H Wright — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:40:13 +0000

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

By: onedayitwillmake

onedayitwillmake — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:19:39 +0000

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.

By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:35:11 +0000

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…

By: Mark Walters

Mark Walters — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:36:23 +0000

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

By: Mark Walters

Mark Walters — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:03:10 +0000

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

By: Erik

Erik — Sat, 02 May 2009 06:00:20 +0000

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