Eclipse keyboard cycling
June 29th, 2005
Did you ever experience the weird phenomenon that, while coding away in Eclipse, all of a sudden your keyboard layout was changed? Your a's became q's, and your z's became w's. This always happened to me when I was pressing some complicated key combination, and got confused, and had to start over (alt-shift-R is complicated, in my book). The really weird thing was that all other programs would still react normally to the keyboard, except for Eclipse. The only remedy I knew of, was to restart Eclipse.
And 2 minutes ago, I found the other solution: alt-shift. This seems to cycle between keyboards within your application. A quick test shows that this is also the case in Firefox - I just never experienced it there, because the most complicated shortcut I use in Firefox is F6.
Another tiny mistery unraveled.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:18 PM elcipse? firefox? gewoon een w2k feature die de laatste 3 jaar voor je verborgen is gebleven en je nu achtervolgt tot op je XP. (dus je doet beter je test eens opnieuw, want het zou echt ook wel in notepad, word, excel,... ook zijn gevolgen moeten doen gelden...) Je hebt er trouwens geen last van als je maar 1 keyboard definieert in windows meen ik me te herinneren. Trouwens, tijd om nog eens te switchen he (http://ubuntulinux.org/) :-)