Less known but useful features in Eclipse

Question

I have been using Eclipse for a long time, the feature that is less known but very useful is the Scrapbook Page, that allows you to execute sections of the Java code without

Answer 1

The plugin Spy (Alt+Shift+F1) is certainly one not very advertised.
Yet if you have any question about "how I develop a feature X looking like the one in eclipse", it can be very useful to quickly locate the right eclipse java source which does implement that feature!

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See also this Guide to eclipse3.5:

The Plugin Spy gives you easily information about the running UI.
Press Alt+Shift+F1 to get information about the current running Eclipse plugin / data types / screen.
This way you can get immediately access to the plugin which is currently running.

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Eclipse 3.5 introduced the possibility to check which plugin contributed a menu. Press "Alt+Shift+F2" and select a menu to see who is contributing this menu

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Answer 2

I like the fact, that you don't necessarily need to create a new class by using New->Class, when having the class source somewhere in the clipboard. You can simply select the destination package and paste the clipboard content.