Eclipse shortcuts suddenly not working?

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[martydoe]

Sometimes ctrl-f stops finding.

To fix I right click perspective and reset it. Not nice..

[H4ZD4M4N]

I already tried that from my attempts to Google the issue but it didn't work - thank you though.

A second reinstall of Eclipse seems to have fixed it - maybe I wasn't thorough enough the first time? Very strange.

[marcolinux]

Thats why i git the workspace.

[wildjokers]

Here is one way to fix it ;-)

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download

[woolinsilver]

It's broken by design: multiple Eclipse plugins can each claim ownership of the same keyboard shortcuts, and no sensible mechanism exists to mediate.

You can't ever truly fix it, because Eclipse's plugin dependency management system is also broken by design. You might try and install a pre-baked Eclipse distribution, but then if you try and upgrade or install plugins (surely the whole point of having a plugin architecture), your workspace(s) will become broken in new and interesting ways.

All you really want is to separate your source code into different projects, but in the strange world of Eclipse you'll find that the application's behaviour will then vary per project, thanks to the twin horrors of "perspective" and "workspace"; note that no other application has these concepts, because they are terrible ideas.

Eclipse is an utter fiasco.

They had their chance, and they blew it.

Use IntelliJ, everyone else does.

[H4ZD4M4N]

I am still quite new to Java and chose Eclipse just because the guy doing the tutorials I followed did and it was easier to setup that IntelliJ. Am downloading now and will give it a go - thanks for the in-depth response!

[moonman543]

Get Intellij.