03.12.08

Eclipse robobait: preview method's code in place

Posted in Eclipse, programmer productivity, robobait at 10:38 pm by ducky

Cool!

I am doing a observational study of people using Eclipse, and I saw one of the users doing something that looked really useful.

If you hover over a Java element (type, method, or field), then you see the Javadocs for that element. Yeah, old news. You do that seventy times per day already.

If you shift-hover over a Java element, then it shows you the method’s source intead of the Javadocs!

This is a great way to get a peek down a navigation path before commiting to it.

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