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Beko
Beko

Reputation: 1002

Eclipse - Ctrl Contrib (Bottom)

For some reason I can't enter parentheses in Eclipse. SHIFT + 8 doesn't work. I have to press CTRL + SHIFT + 8 in order to get an opening parentheses (likewise for ")").

I believe the reason for this is Ctrl "Contrib (Button)" which is some sort of status message at the lower right corner. I'm not sure if it's always been there, but probably not.

This is the only similar problem I found in the net, but the solution doesn't work for me, because such a path (Help -> Software Updates -> Manage Configuration) doesn't exist in my version of Eclipse. Help -> Search didn't help either.

How do I get rid of it? If it's not the source of my problem, what is? Going with CTRL + SHIFT + 8/9 to enter parentheses is really annoying and its not something I'd like to get used to.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1355

Answers (2)

Beko
Beko

Reputation: 1002

Found this, which solved my problem.

Went to Window -> Preferences -> General -> Keys, and looked for key combinations that used SHIFT + 8. There were two such options:
- Import
- Add to Working Set

I removed the hotkeys from them and restarted Eclipse. It worked for me.

Upvotes: 2

Highchiller
Highchiller

Reputation: 194

The reason for these weired short cuts came up with eclipse sdk. If you downloaded and install the Eclipse SDK Tests you will find some weired settings. Like a blue texftfield in bottom right corner with "Ctrl Contributor" in it and also these short cuts.

To uninstall only these packages go to Window -> Installation Details -> Installed Software (tab) and searching for Test. You should find Eclipse SDK Tests and uninstall it. It just adds some non-sense features to your IDE to test if everything works.

Hope it helped and sorry for my english!

Upvotes: 2

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