30+ Eclipse Shortcuts Every Java Programmer Should Know

Eclipse has tons of shortcuts for you to code Java faster. But there are just so many hotkeys and keyboard shortcuts, which are the most useful?
We'll go through 30+ amazing shortcuts for the Eclipse IDE when coding in Java. Once you learn them, you'll be able to code all your Java programs faster, and waste less time doing work that the Eclipse IDE can do for you.
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[@ensislucis2395]

The getters and setters were actually life changing

[@pesterenan]

When you hold CTRL+ALT+ DOWN you can duplicate the line that you have selected. Pretty useful!

[@sayyedwaliullah5587]

But what about ubuntu user yar it doesn't work here in my system.. it just minimise and maximize the opened tabs and windows

[@TyrellJoanna]

[@saiprasanthpk17]

@@tarikkirat can we change the settings of shortcuts

[@for.you.tube.]

@@saiprasanthpk17 Yes. Press Ctrl + Shift + L. When shortcuts open, again press Ctrl + Shift + L. Then you can change. Or you can go to preferences and change there.

[@bodymurat]

@@sayyedwaliullah5587you have to remove the keymapping from Ubuntu if you don’t want to use it as a system shortcut, then eclipse will catch it

[@francksgenlecroyant]

This is the most important video in my life as a Java developer using Eclipse and Eclipse based IDE like STS, thank you John!

[@markatkinson5447]

Really appreciate your sense of community and willingness to share. Our secondary benefit is that you are REALLY good at presenting your ideas clearly and quickly. Thank you.

[@Devilzlegacy]

Im in my Junior year of CS. The hours that I could have saved If I watched this earlier AHHH

[@misterdneh]

I've been self teaching (meaning watching guides, trial and error learning, reading docs and so on) Java for almost a decade and sometimes I forget certain things myself than see your content which helps me understand a bit more too lol.

[@wakskater4996]

Your videos are really really helpfull, this one in particular ! It gives me a real confidence boost & the feeling that I'm not completely lost. Somehow you explain the funktion of java way better than my teachers without even using my native language. I can even watch them for entertainment purposes. Big Thanks !

[@noelpadavan5674]

The most underrated video I’ve seen on eclipse shortcuts. Awesome!!

[@petarJK]

As an intellij user, when I had to use eclipse for a spring course, I was very miserable at first. This video helps a lot. Thanks.

[@phattrinh217]

One of the greatest video about eclipse ever made. Thank you sir.

[@nagakobe5107]

Thank you John for The most underrated video I’ve seen on eclipse shortcuts. Awesome!!

[@NiceChange]

I absolutley loved this video. my production just went sky high. Thanks so much.

[@dlittlehoboapps1438]

I love your short videos I am studying for java certification and your videos really make things clear for me.

[@urrxca]

With any doubts , you are the best teaching java in whole internet that I've ever seem. If you consider in the future get a patreon or something like that, I will be one of your subscriber surely

[@hunterftw8563]

Similar to moving lines up/ down using the Alt + Up/Down shortcut, We can replicate a piece of code by selecting the code and then press Ctrl + Alt + Down. This will create a copy of the selected code just below.

[@felipegomes6312]

thanks for the tip

[@carsonstept6015]

okay, this is my favorite thing ever im about to make some cleeeeeean code

[@Frank-mo4is]

Great demonstration. Thanks for sharing these useful shortcuts.

[@dhickey5919]

John, these timesavers are amazing! Makes coding more fun than work. Cheers.

[@deabsoluteschwarz]

So many useful ones in here. On more is Alt + Shift + L to extract to variable

[@josueramirez7247]

How does this one work? I bet you select some expression, and it makes a variable declaration/assignment with it, right?

[@ajayanand3353]

Kudos for making such a useful video on this , its very helpful for java programmers who work on eclipse as their IDE.

[@jam-yh9il]

Your videos are consistently amazing, thanks John!

[@ameyadeshpande6617]

Hey love your videos!!! Could you also do a quick video on how we can customise Eclipse like dark theme, and how to use different colors for variables, data type, etc. Would love to see that

[@fredericoasoares]

As you mentioned, ctrl + f11 start run app. I'd like to add just f11. It starts debug mode app.

[@inghy98]

Control alt down to duplicate selected code block, that is really helpful

[@1starbrainfire]

This video is great! Thank you so much for sharing 😃

[@salvatore.masuzzo]

One very useful shortcut is shift+alt+j. It creates the template for either class or method documentation. It is most useful where methods have one of more parameters, a return type an perhaps some definition of generics. I also have another observation to make... you talked about poor code formatting and also difficulty about finding the beginning and end of a block of code. I do not know (and don't need to know) the relevant shortcut that swithes between braces, because the problem is automatically resolved by the use of the Allman Coding Style, which I always apply. I would encourage you to present your sample code with that style.

[@gabucarneiro]

THE best!! Really helpful and excellent explanations! Thank you so much!

[@alejandrodelatorre1888]

Thank you for all the knowledge you have given in your videos

[@adamlasry5225]

Great teacher. Thank you for all your Java videos.

[@thexfactor9999]

I enjoy your videos, but would like to see you do one on swing and thread interaction.

[@TheCalmshadow]

This vid is a must watch for new coders using eclipse

[@andreaw7787]

This makes life soooo much easier! Subscribed!

[@lincmeng634]

Great video! Thank you John.

[@RafaelPetro-pn4nw]

Amazing! This is so helpful!

[@prasannalakshmi6814]

Thank you for useful short cuts.

[@yagoaguero88]

Thanks John for the video. I really believe that learning shortcuts takes you and your devs to the next level!

[@CodingWithJohn]

IDEs do a LOT for us if we can learn to use what they can do.

[@tonydeveloperdndndn]

Wow. That's really helpful. Thanks a lot.

[@anbalaganramu8454]

Super useful. Thanks.

[@harshtripathi4565]

Very useful tutorial, making daily work easy and smooth to write. If possible can you create one for IntelliJ IDE also. Thanks a lot for you work.

[@swapnilkawade]

Thank God. It was Damn helpful.

[@chuckbaranoski6184]

Great video. Trusting you that you covered all of most important ones, but thanks for showing where to find the rest of them! Lol

[@IloveGod5556]

Thank you. This is really relevant. God bless your channel.

[@rahuls331]

You can perform fast scrolling by holding alt or option key. This is pretty useful when you have large code.

[@souravroy4090]

THANKS A LOT. IT WAS A LIFE SAVER

[@bibahbibah5108]

thnx , very helpfull . that make easy to switch to eclips

[@nahidasultana6842]

Thanks for the incredible tricks! If I accidentally hit something and don't know where and I want to go back where I was, what will be the shortcut?

[@jvsnyc]

I will watch this video probably the most times of any of them. I know about 1/3 of them but the others are very useful...the CTRL-SHIFT-L is great but watching you do them while hearing you talk about them helps get them into the part of the brain they need to be in, automatic actions like scratching an itch...

[@CodingWithJohn]

Glad it was helpful! There are a bunch I didn't know about myself until I started doing the research for this video that I now use regularly.

[@jvsnyc]

@@CodingWithJohn Venkat Subramanian likes to joke that advanced Java programmers are obsessed with figuring out how to get their ides to write as much of their code for them as possible. This shows many, perhaps most of them, in one video. Some say not having the code there at all is better than not having to type it. Yeah, until you are debugging code you can't see, I think.

[@CodingWithJohn]

True. I do LOVE Lombok though and we use it throughout our applications. Add once you're familiar with each particular tool like that there's less and less need to debug through the code they generate.

[@renejacques8288]

Instead of sysout you can just type syso. Excellent video. I've been wondering about some of these. Thanks.

[@d0rzA]

Thank you so much !!

[@lyxlyxkggkygncgzkg3182]

Thank you so much

[@365ican]

Awesome, thank you so much ^^

[@adeshahugar1141]

thank you john

[@user-do3df3rj5m]

Thanks. Very useful 👍

[@jeyavanicm1224]

Great video ..Thanks

[@James-ed9cl]

Thank you so much !

[@user-dl6qs1sq8h]

Thank you very much , your amazing

[@gregoiremartinetti2745]

ALT SHIFT L -> extract to variable, most usefull with alt shift r :)

[@vijaygaikwad6367]

Very helpfull and nice video....

[@hemadribathula1759]

00:03 Learn Eclipse shortcuts for faster Java programming 01:35 Understanding the main method and its components 03:11 Moving code and surrounding it with try catch blocks can be done with shortcuts. 04:51 Eclipse IDE provides shortcuts to generate getters and setters, constructors, and format code automatically. 06:31 Importing and organizing imports in Eclipse 08:11 Eclipse offers useful shortcuts for Java programming. 09:48 Eclipse IDE tips for easier code navigation and editing 11:21 Eclipse shortcuts can improve productivity

[@adriansmith38]

Ctrl-Shift-R also takes the upper case letters of a class - e.g. MSC for MySimpleClass

[@abhinavbahuguna1771]

Hope you are doing well. i have a specific request . Can you please provide inputs for writing a secure code in Java.

[@gracebrace019]

I am subscribed to your channel, I watch almost all your videos, appreciate your work. I must mention, It was inappropriate for you to say "Would have slapped him on his face for not showing you shortcuts." Professors want those fundamental concepts to be embedded in your head, hence stop you from using tools early on. You can relate this, by observing how introducing a calculator early in American Secondary as well as High Schools almost cripple the students and majority of them suck at Math. Compare this with students coming from of Chinese or Indian education systems, where they are forced to do mental calculations for roots, cube roots, squares, factors, trigo, geo, calculus..... you name it everything!!! Makes them way more competitive in Math or any technical knowledge.

[@thomasfahy1926]

at 2:54 how are you able to get eclipse to say "condition" within the ()? My eclipse autofills or disappears and I don't want that. I want to know what's supposed to go in that () because I'm still very new.

[@vigneshgc3391]

1:00 For some reason when I use this shortcut on sysout, it gives me a list with options (sysout, syserr, mains args, args) instead of directly converting it to System.out.println(). Do I have to enable any option for it to work?

[@Lumary]

Thanks a lot!😊

[@danielcommins1285]

I use the shorter "yso" Ctrl+space for the printing shortcut. A middle schooler told me about it!

[@demirg]

You mean “syso”?

[@danielcommins1285]

@@demirg nope, I mean "yso". I used to type "syso" then I found out that "yso" also works

[@user-ur3gr2qs6i]

I used to hate eclipse. Now I can’t wait to go home and practice.

[@felipegomes6312]

I tried all others IDE for Java but I always come back to Eclipse. It may not be the most clean looking or the lightest but it never leaves me hanging for too long, it always has what I need.

[@sabeennawaz1001]

This video is awesome

[@shivprasadbulbule6052]

Thank you sir ...!!

[@WarzoneMasters]

just thanks!!!

[@BiagioRosarioGreco]

HI. I have a Hamletic doubt. In Java lang is it possible to create an interpolated string like it happens in languages ​​like Python, PHP, C# or others? I know I can use "a = %d".formatted(myIntVar); but I would like to know if something like "a = {myIntVar}" is also possible. Waiting for help

[@stephengusi6867]

great video

[@vmishra3054]

Well done

[@kamkam5637]

Hi All! anything which works similar as ctrl + w in Intellij - the shrtcut to select range with possibility to extend while next usage? Does anyone know?

[@robert202]

subscribed!

[@azeemali7102]

Your the best!

[@pavangubba3257]

Could you please do the video of debugging the code in real time environment

[@28santagabo]

How do you change the variables in mac?? I'm trying and is not working :(

[@levon9]

Been subscribed for a while - great videos. I get your feeling, but speaking as a CS prof who has been teaching Java to undergrads for a long time, I also don't show these shortcuts to my students until they have mastered writing their own getters/setters and constructors, etc. Only after that they have mastered these concepts and skills, will I show them the shortcuts to avoid the more tedious aspects of it. Though I encourage them to explore "Eclipse Tricks and Tips" and if they discover this on their own before I show them, it's fair game. By the way, curious, Eclipse or IntelliJ? I've been using Eclipse for ages, but taking a look at IntelliJ - I should check, maybe you have a video. PS: Your Intro to Threading video is excellent and I have my students watch it.

[@nordicvolkan]

very useful

[@immanuvel06]

how to see inbuild methods code like Math methods , is there any shortcut for it.

[@shivampandey-oc9bm]

please explain one video on serialization and desirialazation

[@Christian-of1tz]

Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+3 are the most useful shortcuts I know

[@user-fw9pg9lu2i]

Just follow the step click on Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Content Assist = Auto activation triggers for java.

[@otamisan]

alt + up or down arrow keys to move whole line codes up and down. ctrl + alt + up or down arrow keys to duplicate whole line of codes

[@overdoscream]

can you do the same thing with intelliJ shortcuts please?

[@demirg]

Why doesn’t Eclipse have Glassfish tools anymore? What is the way of building Java/Jakarta EE applications nowadays?

[@mihirmalladi8494]

I have a question, why do you not use Visual Studio?

[@vithushan9043]

it's awesome 😍

[@kapiljain7596]

Please make a video on intellij shortcuts

[@Atropos148]

Damn, that professor making you type out getters really wanted to teach you a lesson :) I guess it worked

[@technofreak39]

0:58 "so you can immediately just start typing out .. "whatever you want"" I had to giggle a bit :D

[@SoumenMittra]

Can you create a similar shortcuts video for Intellij

[@_Anna_Nass_]

First year student watching this now so I can save maximum time 😎

[@louiemunoz]

awesom

[@8015908]

I was about to subscribe, but then I realized that I already am.

[@djoezi3662]

Very useful! Thanks a lot. Subscribe and like 👍🏼

[@vivekchanmal8664]

videos are nice

[@user-nv5ty6bj4d]

At1:23, whan i use chinese ssystem PC, the ctrl+Space is change the keyin language type in WinOS，so the Java code can't get this Shortcuts.

[@user-nv5ty6bj4d]

I find "ALT+/" can call the Proposals list and use it

[@kandualmahesh3547]

Please make video on STS

[@anupamdas2022]

ctrl + 1 - most used.