ECLIPSE TIPS & TRICKS LAKSHMI P SHANMUGAM SARIKA SINHA - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

ECLIPSE TIPS & TRICKS LAKSHMI P SHANMUGAM SARIKA SINHA Eclipse Platform Co-lead Eclipse JDT & Platform Co-lead IBM IBM

OVERVIEW DARK THEME CONFIGURATION NAVIGATION SEARCH CODING DEBUGGING

DARK THEME

DARK THEME CSS based Dark theme ❏ Major improvements in recent releases ❏ Native look ❏

WINDOWS DARK THEME Menu Dark Scrollbars

MAC & LINUX Eclipse by default automatically launches in dark theme if the ❏ system is in dark mode

Welcome Page Help

Command - Cmd ( ⌘ ) vs Control - Ctrl ( ^)

Quickly find anything in Eclipse Find Actions (Cmd + 3)

CONFIGURATION

CONFIGURATION Show key bindings for command (from Keys preferences ❏ or toggle using Find actions) Configure Window title (from Workspace preferences) ❏ Adjust view font size (from Colors & Font preferences) ❏ Zoom in/out text editors (Cmd ++/--) ❏ Maximize active editor/view (Ctrl + M) ❏ Show problem marker in editor (using Text editor ❏ preferences)

NAVIGATION

NAVIGATION Quickly switch editors (Cmd + E) ❏ Show in System Explorer (from Find actions) ❏ Show exit points of a method (place cursor on return type ❏ or exit statement) Mark occurrences (Cmd + . ) ❏ Multiple last edit location (Ctrl + Alt + → , Ctrl + Alt + ← ) ❏ Code minings (enable in preferences or toggle from Find ❏ actions) Minimap ❏ Hover (Cmd + Shift + Hover, Shift + Hover, Cmd + Hover) ❏

SEARCH

SEARCH Quick search (Alt + Shift + Cmd + L) ❏ Incremental search (Cmd + J) ❏ Java Search dialog ❏ Find references (Cmd + Shift + G) ❏ Include plugins from target platform in Java search ❏

TROUBLESHOOTING

TROUBLESHOOTING Plug-in Spy (Alt + Shift + F1) ● Plug-in menu spy (Alt + Shift + F2) ● Layout spy (using Find actions) ● API Tooling: Hover over version error to see breaking ● change

CODING

CODING Typing ● Block selection (Alt + Cmd + A) ○ Quickly move line (Alt + ↑ / ↓ ) ○ Quickly duplicate line (Alt + Cmd + ↑ / ↓ ) ○ Word completion (Ctrl + . on Mac ) ( Alt + / on Win & Linux) ○ Templates ● View/create templates (Templates View/ Preferences page) ○ Switch expression templates (type switch followed by Ctrl + Space) ○ Content assist ● Autoactivation (.) ○ Insert/replace using content assist (With/without Ctrl) ○ Camel case & substring match (By default) ○ Subword & subtype completion (Setting in Preferences page) ○ Postfix completion (. after statement) ○ Non-blocking java completion (By default) ○

CODING Type Filters ❏ Pattern matching for instanceof ❏ Text block creation ❏ Cleanup ❏ Simplify functional interface instances ( Setting in Cleanup profile ) ❏ Quick fixes ❏ Surround with "try-with-resources" block ❏ Quick fixes for module-info Javadoc ( Setting in Javadoc error level ) ❏

DEBUGGING

DEBUGGING Helpful NPE (Java 14) ❏ Suspension on recurrence of exception ❏ History for expressions in the Variables view ❏ Detail formatter/ Logical Structures ❏ Console output enhancements ❏ Lambda evaluation improvements ❏ Trigger point ( Set in Breakpoint properties) ❏ Tracepoint ( Run-> Toggle Tracepoint) ❏

DEBUGGING Toggle method breakpoints from outline view ❏ Organising breakpoints by working set ❏ Show command line in launch configuration ❏ Launch Configuration Template ❏ Remote debugging launch configuration ❏ java -Xdebug ❏ -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=9999, server=y,suspend=n

SMART DEBUGGING COMMANDS

Show active key bindings in Eclipse Cmd + Shift + L Modify the active key bindings in Keys preferences Cmd + Shift + L (Press Twice)

DOCUMENTATION Eclipse > Help > Tips & Tricks ● Eclipse > Help > Welcome > What’s new ● ● https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/ ● Sleak - https://www.eclipse.org/swt/tools.php

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