In an earlier blog, I wrote about using F3 to navigate to the declaration of a symbol, say a method. This works great until you hit an interface type and need to find the actual implementation. One way to get the implementation is to hit F4, which shows the type hierarchy in a separate view. The [...]
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Straight to the implementation
Posted in navigation, tagged don't bore me with your interfaces on December 4, 2007 | Comments Off
Back and forth we go
Posted in navigation, tagged where am I? what am I doing here? on November 14, 2007 | Comments Off
Once you’ve F3′d your way somewhere and you want to get back to where you were, you *could* hit the left arrow icon in the toolbar . But if a crowd of restless onlookers is watching you code (as they would be) and you want to impress them (as you would) then you bust out alt-leftarrow… oooh! Then before they [...]
Now F3aturing…
Posted in navigation, tagged jump around jump around on November 14, 2007 | Comments Off
Do you ever find yourself wondering how do I get there from here, where “there” might be a restaurant, the nearest bus stop or Courtney Cox and David Arquette’s house? If only life had an F3 key. Highlight a symbol in your open editor (symbol means keyword like a variable, method name, class name, etc) and jump [...]
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