NetBeans shortcut key for collapsing/expanding a method

Question

JAVA - NETBEANS

This is an IDE question

I am always working with collapsed methods, because I want to be able to see my methods all together. This is a little time consuming because I have to use the mouse to scroll up to the declaration of the method and click on the - (minus) icon. And then respectively go to the method I want to work on and click on the + (plus) icon.

Is there a way through a keyboard shortcut to do the collapse (and respectively the expand)?

Answer 1

I copied a piece from http://wiki.netbeans.org/KeymapProfileFor60.

The first option is for Win/Lin and the second for Mac.

Collapse (hide) a block                     Ctrl + Minus                 Cmd + Minus Collapse (hide) a block                     Ctrl + NumPad Minus      Collapse (hide) all code blocks             Ctrl + Shift + NumPad Minus  Cmd + Shift + Minus Expand a Collapsed Block (expand-fold)      Ctrl + Plus                  Cmd + Plus Expand a Collapsed Block (expand-fold)      Ctrl + NumPad Plus   Expand a Collapsed Block (expand-fold)      Ctrl + Equals                Cmd + Equals Expand all code blocks (expand-all-folds)   Ctrl + Shift + NumPad Plus   Expand all code blocks (expand-all-folds)   Ctrl + Shift + Plus          Cmd + Shift + Plus Expand all code blocks (expand-all-folds)   Ctrl + Shift + Equals        Cmd + Shift + Equals  

Answer 2

Just to offer an alternative, have you considered using the Navigator View to navigate within the members instead? I usually just leave all methods uncollapsed, and double click on the method in the Navigator view to go to that method. What's nice about the Navigator View are the icons which provide visual indicators of the type and visibility of methods and fields.