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Vihaan Verma
Vihaan Verma

Reputation: 13143

Eclipse: show error message only with keyboard

I love my keyboard. When coding(c++) in eclipse some time I do some syntactic mistakes. For example

std::String

it should have been std::string. I have been coding some java programs :p. What I m looking for is a way to display the error info

Type 'std::String' could not be resolved

using some keyboard shortcut. Instead of clicking on the bug icon that appears on the left side of the page. I know about CNTRL + '+' and '.' . So how do I do this ? Thanks

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1067

Answers (2)

schnatterer
schnatterer

Reputation: 7859

In the source code editor, pressing F2 while the (keyboard's) cursor is at at underlined text opens an overly window that contains the warning/error description. Works for JDT/java, so I assume it's the same for CDT/c++.

In addtion, (in JDT/java) pressing F2 on methods/classes without problem shows the javadoc in an overlay window.

Upvotes: 10

moeTi
moeTi

Reputation: 3904

I don't know about a keyboard shortcut for that, but here is another solution:

Open up the "Problems" view (Window -> Show View -> Problems) and position it wherever you like. You can configure what problems are shown there by clicking on the small triangle in the upper right corner. There you have to select "Show -> Errors/Warnings on Selection". This way only errors in the currently edited file will be visible.

Now you have all your syntax errors in view without any keyboard interaction at all.

Screenshot:

Screenshot

Upvotes: 2

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