WIP list of Eclipse tips & tricks (mainly for the Java IDE)

eclipse-tips.adoc

List of tips to cover

1. Refactoring: Extract method?

2. Typing: automatically place semicolons

3. Typing: escape text when pasting into a string literal

4. Do not always remember the shortcuts? Find any option with Ctrl-Shift-3

5. Organize imports: how to ignore javadoc

6. Formatter: don’t touch my manually wrapped lines!

7. Formatter: don’t touch that part (using begin/end tags). Thx Emmanuel Fontan)

8. How to quick fix many issues outside of the Clean up menu https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=351956

9. Replacing ternary with if/else

10. Eclipse fav : static imports

11. JSR305 annotations to help null analysis

12. JSR305 externally annotated classes (Eclipse Mars)

13. Save actions: automatic formating

14. Automatic contextualization inside an instanceof block (auto-add cast)

15. [Ctrl]-alt-arrow up or down to copy or move lines

16. Ctrl-Shift-T then CamelCase initials to find classes

17. Type filters (to filter out java.awt.* for example…​)

18. Exception variable name in catch blocks

19. Alt-Shift-x / T for the tests, …​

20. Alt-Shift-A (thx Olivier Jaquemet), as if Sublime invented it all

21. Step filtering (thx Sebastien Bordes for the reminder) : be able to filter out stack when debugging (?) (to be tested)

22. Filtering/choosing which methods to display in the Outline using javadoc’s @category tags (thanks Jordi Barrère).

Include ?

1. Using p2 Director [inside Docker] to create a customized Eclipse

2. EGit : staging line by line

Try out

1. Code Recommenders

2. JRebel Eclipse Optimizer http://zeroturnaround.com/free/optimizer-for-eclipse/