Shortcut key to select word in Eclipse

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alex2k8 picture alex2k8 · Jan 12, 2010 · Viewed 40.1k times · Source

Is there any keyboard shortcut to select a word? Or may be it can be assigned some how?

Answer

Instantsoup picture Instantsoup · Jan 12, 2010

Shift + Alt + ↑ selects enclosing elements.

Shift + Alt + ↓ reverses Shift + Alt + ↑.

Shift + Alt + ← selects enclosing elements moving up the file.

Shift + Alt + → selects enclosing elements moving down the file.

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