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jonderry
jonderry

Reputation: 23633

How do I switch on emacs keys in Eclipse?

If I go to Window -> Preferences -> General -> Keys, change the scheme to "Emacs", and click apply, nothing happens.

I'm using Eclipse 3.6.1 on Fedora 14. Is there something I'm missing or is this just broken? Is there a workaround that doesn't involve manually entering all of the shortcuts?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1586

Answers (2)

mfeber
mfeber

Reputation: 202

The keybindings mechanism in Eclipse occasionally gets confused. Briefly, you have to convince Eclipse to reset the bindings to the default before re-enabling your desired binding scheme. A description of the procedure (that works most of the time) can be found at: http://www.mulgasoft.com/emacsplus/keybinding. Some users have found that they need to restart Eclipse more frequently than is outlined in the procedure...

Upvotes: 2

Joseph Gay
Joseph Gay

Reputation: 800

While I don't know about the built in Emacs keys, I do enjoy using Emacs+ for Eclipse: http://www.mulgasoft.com/emacsplus.

Upvotes: 5

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