Eclipse Key Bindings

2020-05-21

Why this post

Especially in the world of ABAP Development, Eclipse with ADT is something like a “rising star”. After almost 10 years, still a lot of developers don’t what to use it, because the still feel more comfortable with SE80. Of of the biggest advantages of Eclipse are the docents of helpful shortcuts. But how to teach them best?

Show the key bindings

One easy way, is to teach your friends and colleagues them while demonstrating how to use it. But a lot of them are so intuitive, that you simple forget to mention them. Christian Drumm asked some days ago for the right feature and also found it by himself after some search. You’ll find it in Eclipse settings.

Activate show of key bindings
Activate show of key bindings
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And with this cool feature activated you can just coding :-) - and your guests can enjoy and learn..

Open ABAP Development Object
Open ABAP Development Object

Use ADT Quickfix
Use ADT Quickfix

ADT Cheat Sheet

Besides this feature, it is also possible to learn the shortcuts via the ADT Cheat Sheet.

ABAP in Eclipse Cheat Sheet
ABAP in Eclipse Cheat Sheet

This picture is originally provided here by Michał Majer.