Edit Menu actions

Edit menu commands shown when a C/C++ Editor is visible:

Selecting Edit Menu

Name Function Keyboard Shortcut

Undo Revert the last change in the editor Ctrl + Z

Redo Revert an undone change Ctrl + Y

Cut Copies the currently selected text or element to the clipboard and removes the element. On elements, the remove is not performed before the clipboard is pasted. Ctrl + X

Copy Copies the currently selected text or elements to the clipboard Ctrl + C

Paste Paste the current content as text to the editor, or as a sibling or child element to the a currently selected element. Ctrl + V

Delete Delete the current text or element selection. Delete

Select All Select all the editor content.. Ctrl + A

Find / Replace Open the Find / Replace dialog. Editor only. Ctrl + F

Add Bookmark... Add a bookmark to the current text selection or selected element.

Add Task... Add a user defined task to the current text selection or selected element. Alt + Enter

Find Next Finds the next occurrence of the currently selected text. Editor only. Ctrl + K

Find Previous Finds the previous occurrence of the currently selected text. Editor only. Ctrl + Shift + K

Incremental Find Next Starts the incremental find mode. After invocation, enter the search text as instructed in the status bar. Editor only. Ctrl + J

Incremental Find Previous Starts the incremental find mode. After invocation, enter the search text as instructed in the status bar. Editor only. Ctrl + Shift + J

Shift Right Shifts text Right. Editor only Ctrl + I

Shift Left Shifts text Left. Editor only Ctrl + Shift + I

Next Problem Moves to the next problem encountered. Ctrl + .

Previous Problem Navigates to the previous problem encountered. Ctrl + ,

Content Assist Opens a context assist dialog at the current cursor position to bring up Java code assist proposals and templates. See the Templates preference page for available templates Window > Preferences > C/C++ > Code Templates and go to the Editor preference page Window > Preferences > C/C++ > C/C++ Editor > Content Assist for configuring the behaviour of content assist. Ctrl + Space

Convert Line Delemeters to Toggles line delimeters to

CRLF (Windows)
LF (UNIX, MacOS X)
CR (Classic MacOS)

Encoding Toggles the encoding of the currently shown text content.

Name	Function	Keyboard Shortcut
Undo	Revert the last change in the editor	Ctrl + Z
Redo	Revert an undone change	Ctrl + Y
Cut	Copies the currently selected text or element to the clipboard and removes the element. On elements, the remove is not performed before the clipboard is pasted.	Ctrl + X
Copy	Copies the currently selected text or elements to the clipboard	Ctrl + C
Paste	Paste the current content as text to the editor, or as a sibling or child element to the a currently selected element.	Ctrl + V
Delete	Delete the current text or element selection.	Delete
Select All	Select all the editor content..	Ctrl + A
Find / Replace	Open the Find / Replace dialog. Editor only.	Ctrl + F
Add Bookmark...	Add a bookmark to the current text selection or selected element.
Add Task...	Add a user defined task to the current text selection or selected element.	Alt + Enter
Find Next	Finds the next occurrence of the currently selected text. Editor only.	Ctrl + K
Find Previous	Finds the previous occurrence of the currently selected text. Editor only.	Ctrl + Shift + K
Incremental Find Next	Starts the incremental find mode. After invocation, enter the search text as instructed in the status bar. Editor only.	Ctrl + J
Incremental Find Previous	Starts the incremental find mode. After invocation, enter the search text as instructed in the status bar. Editor only.	Ctrl + Shift + J
Shift Right	Shifts text Right. Editor only	Ctrl + I
Shift Left	Shifts text Left. Editor only	Ctrl + Shift + I
Next Problem	Moves to the next problem encountered.	Ctrl + .
Previous Problem	Navigates to the previous problem encountered.	Ctrl + ,
Content Assist	Opens a context assist dialog at the current cursor position to bring up Java code assist proposals and templates. See the Templates preference page for available templates Window > Preferences > C/C++ > Code Templates and go to the Editor preference page Window > Preferences > C/C++ > C/C++ Editor > Content Assist for configuring the behaviour of content assist.	Ctrl + Space
Convert Line Delemeters to	Toggles line delimeters to CRLF (Windows) LF (UNIX, MacOS X) CR (Classic MacOS)
Encoding	Toggles the encoding of the currently shown text content.

Note: Other Edit options are used with the JDT. Refer to the Java Development User Guide for details.