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Switching Tabs In Eclipse 23

Posted by tottinger Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:59:00 GMT

I found it!

Well, not really. I asked people who told me. After expending far too much time searching through key listings and web pages, and wearing out my welcome by asking my friends who have been using the Eclipse editor for quite a while, I finally remembered that there's an IRC channel where helpful people lurk in order to help clue-free noobs like me. Maybe I've been listening to the commercial world too much, but somehow it managed to escape my notice that open source software really does have support, and darned quick support. I think maybe it's unwise to deny programmers access to open source, and it's certainly unwise of any company using open source to not allow access to the support forums. It is often the shortest distance between here and productivity. If it were commercial software, I doubt I would have waited for an hour on a tech support line (and paid for the time) in order to ask productivity-enhancing questions. I would tend to save the support calls for "real problems."

The answer to the problem of switching between editor tabs is Control-PgUp and Control-PgDn.

The answer getting a quick answer to prob lems is #eclipse at freenode.net. Thanks to the good people there, esp "buggs".

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    Chris Gardner 13 days later:

    I also mapped the Ctrl + Tab sequence to the “Next Editor” command. This allows you to toggle between the current and previous tab a la other Windows programs as well as select a particular tab from a list.

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    Rafael 15 days later:

    There is also Ctrl+E to see a list of open editors (works kind of like quick outline); CTRL+F6, to toogle between editors similar to windows ALT+TAB; CTRL+F7, to toogle between open views and CTRL+F8 to toogle between recent perspectives.

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    Tim Ottinger 19 days later:

    I was a little unhappy when I realized it switches between tabs in the current tab control, not strictly in the editor. I have to switch to the editor before it goes between tabs. A small problem.

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    Jeff L. 20 days later:

    When switching back and forth between only two editors (e.g. test and target), Ctrl-F6 seems to work best for me…

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    Jadriman 11 months later:

    I think Ctrl+F6 is the real answer to your problem, but I find it way too uncomfortable. I prefer the solution given by Chris in the first response.

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    Yorgo about 1 year later:

    Next/Previous Ctrl+PgDown -> Changes to file to the right Ctrl+PgUp -> Changes to file to the left

    you can find it here !!!

    http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/next-editor-in-eclipse

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    Thomas about 1 year later:

    I agree with:

    “I think Ctrl+F6 is the real answer to your problem, but I find it way too uncomfortable. I prefer the solution given by Chris in the first response”

    Remember to remove the CRTL+F6 binding, else it won’t work.

    /Thomas

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    John over 2 years later:

    I find the whole auto-sorting very irritating. I’d like my editors to be auto-closed so they are all visible and i want to go ‘to the left’ or ‘to the right’ from the tab position at the top, not the order i last focused them. But that seems not to be possible anymore, if i press (and release) ctrl+pgdown two times i end up where i was :(

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    MasterPeter over 2 years later:

    Thanks. I reaaaalllyyy needed that. It took me a couple of years of aggravation until I actually decided to ‘give it a Google’ and I found this and it’s great!

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    jan over 3 years later:

    Thx, im did’t find that as well. Next basic thing i can’t find out: How to perform a full-text search over a whole project (incl. comments etc..). None of the items in the menu under search seems to do something like that. Any suggestions?

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    ori0n over 3 years later:

    To put it all together: alt+ left/right arrow is also usable.

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    face blog over 3 years later:

    wow! it is working …... Thanks.

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    M2TS File Converter over 3 years later:

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    scooby over 3 years later:

    Nice one Cyril!

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    Kent over 3 years later:

    Thank you for your great post. It is good that people who have been helped by other Internet programmers are also helping out people like me who have similar problems.

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    Carpet Cleaner Raleigh over 3 years later:

    It took me a couple of years of aggravation until I actually decided to ‘give it a Google’ and I found this and it’s great! Thanks you for the good post.

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    dvd to ipad mac over 4 years later:

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    Arcanis over 4 years later:

    Alt + left/right keys works fine =)

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