While some stuff does work, others do not. This is to avoid Ctrl-arrows not working in the editor as explained in this StackOverflow answer. Disable the welcome screen by checking the box from the bottom-right corner and restart Eclipse. When Eclipse starts it shows you a Welcome screen. After that go to Window → Preferences → General → Keys and change the Scheme in a dropdown to Microsoft Visual Studio. Short version: Go to Help → Install New Software, select your version in the Work with box, wait until the list populates, check the box next to Programming Languages → C/C++ Development Tools and install (with restart). I am going to give you the complete answer here on how to switch Eclipse key bindings to the ones you are used to in Visual Studio.įirst follow the instructions in this Stack Overflow answer: How to Install Visual Studio Key Bindings in Eclipse (Helios onwards) You have to install software, remove settings then still modify stuff. So they immediately google something like 'X key bindings for Y' and they usually get an answer, since developers switching IDEs and preferring one in particular is quite a common situation. The first thing that strikes anyone starting to use another IDE than the one they are used to is that all the key bindings are wrong.

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