Eclipse PDT "tips" ?

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Published on 2009-07-23T05:01:00Z Indexed on 2010/04/04 17:13 UTC
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Hi !

(Yes, this is a quite opened and general and subjective question -- it's by design, cause I want tips you think are great !)

I'm using Eclipse PDT 2.1 to work in PHP, either for small and/or big projects -- I've been doing so for quite some times, now, actually (since before 1.0 stable, if I remember well)...

I was wondering if any of you did know "tips" to be more efficient.

Let met explain more in details : I know about things like plugins like Aptana (better editor for JS/CSS), Subversive (for SVN access), RSE, Filesync, integrating Xdebug's debugger, ...

What I mean by "tips" is more some little things you discovered one day and since use all the time -- and allow you to be more efficient in your PHP projects.

Some examples of "tips" that come to my mind, and that already know and use :

  • ctrl+space to open the list of suggestions for functions / variables names
  • ctrl+shift+R (navigate > open resource) to open a popup which show only files which names contain what you type ; ie, quick opening of files
    • this one might be the perfect example : I know this one is not often known by coworkers and they find it as useful as I do ; so, I guess there might be lots of other things like this one I don't know myself ^^
  • ctrl+M to switch to full-screen view for the editor (instead of double-click on tabs bar)
  • shift+F2 while on a function name, to open it's page if the PHP manual in a browser

Attention Mac Users use Command instead Control.

I guess you get the point ; but I'm really open to any suggestion (be it eclipse-related in general, of more PHP/PDT-specific) that can help be be more efficient :-)

Anyway, thanks in advance for your help !

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