Description Richard Vallee 2002-07-27 17:58:33 EDT

Hi! I tried the eclipse platform that was referred to me by a friend and I 
must say it looks pretty promising but the only thing that definitely stops me 
from using it is shortcuts. I found that there is a default key binding for 
either eclipse default or emacs default. It's simply too static to be really 
useful and almost all of the shortcuts I'm used to are not available so it 
slows my work way too much to be useful. Of course the best situation would be 
to offer default bindings but to allow creation of shortcuts that use both the 
keyboard and mouse. Also java documentation seems to be available through a 
plug-in, I have yet to find it anywhere though, but it should at least be 
available to download with the release since most java programmers work with 
tha java documentation as reference (perhaps because of a lack of other decent 
sources but still).

It would be great to be able to at least customize the shortcuts any way the 
user wants, because other than that the IDE seems to provide some levels of 
customization with the environment that most other IDE's don't even come close 
(tried most of them and finally settled for JCreator since it's the least 
horrible and has very intuitive shortcuts). I can't even consider working 
without my most practical shortcuts so I will wait and see if these can be 
added in a future build.

Rich.