Eclipse and 3-button mice

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

One thing about IntelliJ IDEA that I really love is that the "Open Declaration" feature can be bound to middle-mouse click. So if you have a 3-button mouse, you can navigate around very quickly, one-handed, while you're reading code.

Eclipse, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have any way to bind this function (or any function) to mouse clicks, at least that I can find. Does anybody know how to do this in Eclipse?

[David Heffelfinger]

Pressing control while clicking on a class or object will navigate to
its declaration.

David
[ October 17, 2007: Message edited by: David Heffelfinger ]

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

I know that -- I don't want to have to press control. If I wanted to press "control", I'd use a 2-button mouse!

[Ilja Preuss]

Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
I know that -- I don't want to have to press control. If I wanted to press "control", I'd use a 2-button mouse!

Not exactly an Eclipse solution, but I once had a MS 5 button mouse. The two additional buttons where pressed by thumb; I configured them as "shift" and "control", which was quite cool...

[David Hibbs]

There are a couple options.
a) Enable hyperlink navigation (Prefs->Java->Editor->Navigation, check the box to "Support hyperlink style navigation for 'Open Declaration'"


b) Do what I do (since sometimes you want to copy/paste rather than open decl) : Double-Click the class name. Right Click->Open Declaration from the context menu. When you have no changes to undo/revert, it's the first item in the context menu that is sensitized. Maybe not a single click,
but it's very fast and you don't have to fumble with the keyboard.

c) Modify the keyboard navigation preferences, then map your third mouse button to a particular key sequence. i.e. By default, F3 opens a declaration. If you use your mouse config software to set button 3 to 'F3' for Eclipse, you've got your funcationality.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Thanks, David; the Hyperlink-navigation preference might take a little getting used to but I think I can learn to like it.

[David Hibbs]

Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Thanks, David; the Hyperlink-navigation preference might take a little getting used to but I think I can learn to like it.

Always glad to help a sheriff.

There are a few people here who like it, but not I. I find I'm fast enough w/my button fingers that it's approximately a triple-click to use the context menu method, and I really like to be able to double-click and ctrl-c to copy a single variable name, class name, etc.

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
One thing about IntelliJ IDEA that I really love is that the "Open Declaration" feature can be bound to middle-mouse click. So if you have a 3-button mouse, you can navigate around very quickly, one-handed, while you're reading code.

Nice. Thank you for the tip.