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Eclipse inverse of F3 - Alt-Left doesn't always work

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I'm loving Eclipse's feature of pressing F3 (or Ctrl + click) to jump to go to a declaration, but I also would like a keyboard shortcut to go back. Alt + ← doesn't always do that (it sometimes jumps to some other line in the class I'm visiting, but sometimes it does work, still haven't found a pattern in this) and Ctrl + Q isn't useful as I didn't always have something edited.

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Frank Meulenaar Avatar asked Jan 16 '11 17:01

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Alt + ← seems to be the ultimate answer: How to go back in Eclipse?

This is also mentioned Eclipse Documentation.

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Navi Avatar answered Oct 07 '22 15:10

Navi

Sorry for reviving an old question, but since you still haven't got an accepted answer, I thought I'd give it a shot.

Alt + ← seems to take you back and forth between visited files. If the declaration is in the same file I would expect it not to jump back, but I haven't got a working Eclipse installation at hand. I'm guessing that could be the reason you're not seeing it work as expected ?

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Morten Jensen Avatar answered Oct 07 '22 16:10

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