Use navigation keyboard shortcuts

The Eclipse IDE offers some convenient keyboard shortcuts to navigate in your opened files and the workbench:

With Ctrl + Page Up / Down you can walk between opened editor tabs.

Use Alt + Left / Right to go backwards and forwards in your editing history.

Use Ctrl + F6 to cycle through opened files:

Use Ctrl + F7 to cycle through opened views:

Use Ctrl + 3 to search all opened files, perspectives, views and menu items:

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Ralf Ebert is an independent software developer, technical writer and trainer. He makes apps for Mac OS X and iOS and builds software solutions for companies using Eclipse RCP and Ruby on Rails. He offers training courses for software developers and writes books and articles about software development.