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Eclipse runs “File Search” when pressing AltGr+G

Posted by RRunner on February 2nd, 2010 in Software | 0 comments
Croatian and Slovenian keyboard layout
Image via Wikipedia

Did you ever have any problems with Eclipse? With initial versions of Galileo1 and in previously released Gynamed there was a problem with preassigned keyboard shortcuts on some locale’s2. The problem that Eclipse created when using Slovene keyboard layout was that while programmer wanted to type the ] key, Eclipse run File Search action.

Slovenian users are not to blame that their keyboard has ] key mapped to AltGr+G key combination. And Eclipse developers could browse through Wikipedia to discover what obscure keyboard layouts exist.

Any competent programmer will notice that with the default key mapping Eclipse guards programmers from using too many arrays since typically array is marked with [] key combination. They are advancing object oriented design and programming. But in some cases arrays actually make your code faster and optimize memory usage and fragmentation.

To discover how to remedy the problem read on. READ MORE

  1. should be corrected in 3.5 [↩]
  2. Slovenian and Hungarian, if my memory serves me [↩]

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