F3 is a beautiful thing

September 12th, 2008

Code comprehension.  It’s important when you jump into someone else’s code.

Eclipse makes it easy, with F3, command-T, and shift-command-G.

Very quickly, you can jump through a maze of classes and interfaces, diving into details or seeing the higher hierarchy.  I forgot how nice Eclipse can be.  Particularly if you’ve got the viPlugin.

72 open files (and bless the JBossAS guys for including Eclipse projects and source jars).

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2 Responses to “F3 is a beautiful thing”

  1. 1 David Palmer
    September 12th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    ctrl+shift+o is also a very beautiful thing in eclipse :)

    talk about your productivity boost :)

  2. 2 Tomek
    September 16th, 2008 at 8:31 am

    As well as apple-shift-r and apple-shift-t :)

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