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Mylar Tips and Tricks
Revision as of 18:48, 7 December 2006 by Rob.elves.eclipse.org (Talk | contribs)
Task tips
- If you wish to discard outgoing changes on a task, use the synchronize (F5) option in the tasklist popup menu. This will retrieve the latest data from the repository and will present a dialog indicating that your local changes will be overwritten (you may opt to keep your new comment if desired).
Source Repositories
- When checking out a new project, deactivate the active task. Otherwise all newly created files will become interesting.
View Shortcuts
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Alt+clickorAlt+RightArrow: show all children of an element in a focused view, then click to select. Hold down alt to keep drilling in, click on whitespace in view to show all root elements. Also see configuration on Linux.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Task List view
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Ctrl+F: find -
Insert: new personal task -
Delete: delete selected -
F5: synchronize
General
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Ctrl+F9: activate task dialog -
Ctrl+Shift+F9: deactivate task -
Ctrl+F12: open task dialog -
Ctrl+Shift+F12: open repository task dialog
Context manipulation
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Ctrl+Shift+Up: mark as landmark -
Ctrl+Shift+Down: mark less interesting
Drag and drop
- Dragging URLs to Task List: in Mozilla/Firefox just drag, in Internet Explorer
Ctrl+drag
Useful Eclipse shortcuts
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Alt+Shift+Q, K: show Task List view -
Ctrl+F10: invoke view menu or ruler menu in editor (e.g. to toggle Collapse All in Task List)