I just wanted to share some of my personal favorite features of CFeclipse, that although not huge, are very useful while I'm developing. 

The first thing I wanted to share is linking the navigation window with the editor.  If you are like me and you pin the navigator (file browser) in CFEclipse to the window frame, you'll find it's very easy to get lost in your files.  It turns out there is actually a way to have the itnerface automatically select the file your editing as your switch between files.  To give this a try all you need to do is click the button with two opposite facing arrows to the right of the Navigation tab.  This will make it so that whenever you switch between a file in the editor, that file will automatically be selected in the navigation.

Another great feature of CFEclipse is it's keyboard shortcuts.  There are really quite a few, but I find the most useful ones to be the following:

Ctrl+Shift+O <cfoutput></cfoutput>
Ctrl+Shift+D <cfdump var="##">
Ctrl+Shift+R

<cfscript></cfscript>

The last feature is actually popular in many development studio's now, however I've found it goes unnoticed by many.  Everyone knows easy to ready code is tabbed in, however did you know if you use "Shift-Tab", it pull back the text one tab.  This works in SQL Server, CFEclipse, and many other tools! 

I hope these features are as useful to you as they have been to me.

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