ABAP in Eclipse — Keyboard Shortcuts You Cannot Miss + Cheat Sheet
For last weeks, I am forcing myself to develop all things in ABAP using Eclipse IDE. At the beginning, it was really hard to switch from standard SAP environment “SE80” to Eclipse, but I decide to do all possible tasks in new IDE. After few days, few developments, few debugging sessions, I realised that Eclipse is future of ABAP development.
Eclipse has a lot of useful tricks, views, shortcuts that can help You raise up Your productivity and make programming much simpler. I want to share with You, “ABAP in Eclipse Cheat Sheet Shortcuts”. I prepared it on my own, and I am using it a lot during my everyday work.
I hope it will help You to switch from SE80 to Eclipse. If yes, please let me know about it!
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Hello Michal,
nice job, it can be printed till one learns it. Just one question to Ctrl+D. Instead of duplicate, it deletes a line in my ADT. To duplicate a line in an ABAP Class, I need to press Ctrl+Alt+Up. Should I set something in preferences, so that the Ctrl+D like in SE80, will duplicate a line ?
Thank you
You are right the Ctrl+D is the Eclipse default one and will definitely delete the line, same with Ctrl+Alt+Up and Ctrl+Alt+Down to duplicate a line.
Like @Raphael wrote, Ctrl+D delete the line. I changed this shortcut to duplicate line. I updated cheat sheet.
Hi Michal,
Love this blog! Short cuts are always appreciated.
Thank you,
Michelle
Thanks 🙂
Great job, Michal! Thanks for revealing them - I believe that it will help many people to make their way from Eclipse beginners to power users!
Very nice. Thanks for your work!
Can you please insert an Version ID/Number/Date (or similar) so that we can recognize changes faster?
Thanks, I will do that with next version.
Yeah, that's always a good idea, especially for documents being intended for printing out!
(As of now, the current version of the PDF says only says '2017'. )
Nice, but why repeat Thomas´s blog from 2013 ?!
I created handy cheat sheet which is easy to print and wanted to share that with the community. There are much more blog posts about shortcuts in Eclipse.
I totally agree: Building something for one self’s needs + sharing it with others for their use, inspiration and/or as a foundation for own work is a success model!
I, too made such a list reflecting my needs. Maybe bringing it in a printable form is also a nice next step.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Found this via https://blogs.sap.com/2018/01/24/2017-blog-retrospective/ 🙂
...and now found it again via https://blogs.sap.com/2019/10/16/how-to-use-adt-solely-with-a-keyboard-navigation-in-eclipse/#comment-477224 😉
Good document