What is the keyboard shortcut for opening the file explorer in Eclipse?

Question

I've been searching and I can't find the keyboard short cut to open the file explorer in Eclipse (I am mainly using PHP and Java Eclipse). I like to close the file explorer from time to time to give myself more space to see my code and then reopen it when I need to navigate to a different folder/file.

This would be very useful and would save a lot of unhandy hand movement!

Chaw

Answer 1

If i understand you right:

ALT+SHIFT+Q (OPTION+SHIFT+Q - for mac) and then press E will open PHP explorer

press CTRL+SHIFT+L (COMMAND+SHIFT+L - for mac) to get list of available hotkeys.

Elwoodelwyn

Is there anyway to close it with the keyboard? – Chaw

press esc, if it's not maximazed – Fate

Answer 2

To navigate a file in your system from eclipse,where file actually stored:

Alt + Shift + W + X (In Windows OS)

Kriskrischer

Answer 3

You can set a shortcut by yourself. Go to window/general/preferences/keys, search for command related to your explorer view and assign shortcut to it.

Neely

Answer 4

Try ALT+F+. in Windows. It will prompt the open file exporer. So that you can browse and open a file you want..

Cryptanalysis

Answer 5

To open any view (and a range of other things as well in eclipse for instance preference pages) you can use the Quick Access dialog. Type Ctrl + 3 and then type the name of the view you wish to open.

Lynlyncean