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If you’re new to the Eclipse IDE you’re already a big fan, you’ll find something of value every day by following @EclipseJavaIDE.  Frankly, there’s so much good stuff coming out of this account, that it’s hard to pick any favourites. So, I’ve pulled out a couple of recent ones.

Menu entries exist to help you complete incomplete thoughts and—of course—CTRL+1 is always there for Quick Fix or Quick Assist; but sometimes you just don’t want to take your hands off the keyboard.

Create variables or fields out of an expression with Ctrl+2, L and Ctrl+2, F respectively. Type is inferred for you! #EclipseTips pic.twitter.com/wZ7HgGzihm

— Eclipse Java IDE (@EclipseJavaIDE) July 25, 2017

Automating tedious operations like generating fields, getters and setters, etc. is something that the Eclipse IDE does well. Converting anonymous classes into lambda expressions? Easy.

Let @EclipseJavaIDE take care of converting your anonymous classes to lambda expressions. Quite tedious to do manually! #EclipseTips pic.twitter.com/8vvSVZonkb

— Eclipse Java IDE (@EclipseJavaIDE) July 20, 2017

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