Eclipse plugin to roll up if and for?

Question

I'm at university, and we were taught to use notepad to programme java to start with. I moved onto notepad++ and quickly onto eclipse. In notepad++, i could roll up (plus minus sign) if statements or for loop as well as methods and classes. I wondered if there is a plugin for eclipse that allows me to do the same?

Also, are there any essential plugins i should be using with eclipse? I'm rather new to programming.

Thanks in advance

Ben

Answer 1

In Eclipse you can use Shift+Alt+↑ to mark the surrounding block to the current block
(and Shift+Alt+↓ to narrow down again).

Then ← will place you at the beginning of the block, and → at the end.

(Untested, from memory, but VERY handy).

Answer 2

The eclipse Coffee-Bytes Code Folding Plug-in (which is mentioned by htw) is no longer available.

Starting with release 3.0, Eclipse allows folding in its text editor, and that include code folding for classes, comments, imports, but not for if or loop structures.

_{(source: ibm.com)}

A simple double click at the beginning or end of a block ({) is enough to highlight the all block.