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Message: [QUOTE="Tom Anderson, post: 4247927"] The key thing (har har) to know is that all Eclipse's key bindings are configurable, and that there are a great many commands it has which do not have bindings by default. My pet hate is that there are no keystrokes for the 'extract constant' and 'extract parameter' refactorings. It's not long after i sit down with an unfamiliar Eclipse that i find myself binding them to the otherwise unused alt-shift-K and alt-shift-P combinations (fitting neatly into the alt-shift family, which operates the other refactorings). You can examine and configure the key bindings in the 'Keys' page in the preferences. Which you can reach without the mouse by typing the keystroke to open the preferences window (command-, on the Mac; can't remember what it is on Linux), then typing 'keys' and hitting return. The textbox at the top of the page lets you search for commands by name; i don't think there's a way to search by keystroke. You can then see what's bound, and add bindings for things which aren't. There's a little window which shows you any conflicts with bindings you add. You can set the context in which they keystroke is bound; i believe 'In Windows' means it's bound everywhere. From this, i can see that, on the Mac, command-F8 selects the next perspective, and shift-command-F8 the previous one. There are a set of 'Show Perspective (foo)' commands for all the perspectives (do not be seduced by the commands called simply 'Java' and 'Java Browsing' - they are false idols). On my machine, command-F1 to command-F6 are not bound (in Eclipse), so they could be used. Toggle breakpoint is command-shift-B. Open breakpoint properties (but only when in the breakpoints view) is option-return. tom [/QUOTE]

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