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Reputation: 1895

Eclipse Keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS X

I'm running Leopard and do all my Java development in eclipse. Some of the shortcuts work such as Command-1 which will do a quick suggest. However how do I get the Function Keys (F5 for refresh in the package explorer) to work? Right now it brings up spaces or whatever System Preferences maps to that.

What about Control-click into a breakpoint when I'm debugging and want to go directly to the chosen function? Is there a way for my eclipse keyboard shortcuts to take precedence over other programs?

i'm running eclipse 3.4 though I've had this problem since eclipse 3.2.

Upvotes: 21

Views: 50774

Answers (6)

Andrew Norman
Andrew Norman

Reputation: 911

for making function keys work for external keyboards by default (and not having to push the extra fn key):

Change the default function key behavior Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences. Click Keyboard. Select "Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys on external keyboards".

Upvotes: 0

Turgay Celik
Turgay Celik

Reputation: 663

You can change system level default behaviour from preferences as @sorin explained. A correction to the claim in the last sentence, "You can use Fn-function-key to dim the screen and adjust the sound from the keyboard."

Upvotes: 0

sal
sal

Reputation: 23623

Its been a while since I used eclipse on the mac but I think you have to go to Preferences.app and check the "keyboard" pane. There should be an option that chooses if its Fn-function-key or just function-key for the key press. After that, it would be Fn+F5 for expose and just F5 for F5. You will lose the ability to dim the screen and adjust the sound from the keyboard.

Upvotes: 23

Uri
Uri

Reputation: 89729

This doesn't sound like an Eclipse problem.

Are you using an External Keyboard or a macbook ?

If you want to use the debuggers and stuff, you need to change the interpretation of the function keys. You have to manually hit the FN key on your laptop keyboard. Some external keyboards have a function lock.

Upvotes: 0

Dana the Sane
Dana the Sane

Reputation: 15198

Are you using a macbook? In OO.org at least, you have to press fn-fx to get at the application short-cut, otherwise you get the system-wide one.

Upvotes: 2

Restore The Data Dumps Again
Restore The Data Dumps Again

Reputation: 39325

In system preferences under keyboard there is a toggle to turn the f keys into real function keys

Upvotes: 11

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