A shortcut to select a line in Eclipse?

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Arturas M picture Arturas M · Oct 21, 2012 · Viewed 52.1k times · Source

Is there a keyboard shortcut to select all the line your cursor is currently on? In Eclipse? Or even in general on Windows/Linux?

Answer

modulitos picture modulitos · Aug 6, 2013

Solution for Eclipse:

Hold Alt and press ↑ and ↓.

Alt + ↑ and ↓ will move an entire line up or down, so just move it back and you end up with the entire line selected. Thus, the order of ↑ and ↓ does not matter.

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