Eclipse jump to closing brace
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/289342
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08-07-2019 - |
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What is the keyboard short cut in Eclipse to jump to the closing brace of a scope?
Solution
Place the cursor next to an opening or closing brace and punch Ctrl + Shift + P to find the matching brace. If Eclipse can't find one you'll get a "No matching bracket found" message.
edit: as mentioned by Romaintaz below, you can also get Eclipse to auto-select all of the code between two curly braces simply by double-clicking to the immediate right of a opening brace.
OTHER TIPS
As the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + P has been cited, I just wanted to add a really interesting feature: just double-click to the immediate right of the {, and Eclipse will select the whole code block between the opening { and corresponding closing }. Similarly, double-click to the immediate left of the closing '}' and eclipse will select the block.
With Ctrl + Shift + L you can open the "key assist", where you can find all the shortcuts.
On the Macintosh, place the cursor after either the opening or closing curly brace } and use the keys: Shift + Command + P.
To select content use Alt + Shift + Up arrow
To select content up to the next wrapping block press this shortcut again
To go back one step press Alt + Shift + Down arrow. This is also a useful shortcut when you need to select content in a complex expression and do not want to miss something.
Press Ctrl + Shift + P.
Before Eclipse Juno you need to place the cursor just beyond an opening or closing brace.
In Juno cursor can be anywhere in the code block.
I found that if the chosen perspective doesn't match the type of the current file, then "go to matching brace" doesn't work. However, changing perspectives makes it work again. So, for example, when I have a PHP file open, but, say, the Java perspective active, pressing Ctrl + Shift + P does nothing. For the same file with the PHP perspective active, pressing Ctrl + Shift + P does exactly what you'd expect and puts my cursor beside the closing brace relative to the one it started at.
