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Does anyone know if Notch has added some sort of vim key bindings to eclipse. It looks like he can jump to the beginnings and ends of words, but I'm unsure if this is either lag of the video, really fast arrow movement or some form of key shortcuts.

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If I understand you correctly, Ctrl+Left/Right normally does that in Windows and Linux. Alt+Left/Right for the same thing on OS X.

It annoys me when apps don't allow this. This was one of the first keyboard shortcuts I learned back in my first data processing class and everyone should know it.

Here's a nice pdf of all the keyboard shortcuts in Eclipse. I actually have it hung up on the wall next to my computer at work.

http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/EclipseEmacsKeybindings...

Those are specific to the Emacs emulation mode, which you can turn on under "Keys" in preferences. Like a lot of these emulation modes, it gets something like 90% of the key bindings right, and the last 10% will trip you up just enough to drive you crazy if you're really used to Emacs proper.

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