Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Eclipse on Mac - Delete key not working
On a Mac laptop the delete key is a backwards delete, not a forwards delete, and so it does not work out-of-the-box with Eclipse. To fix this just go to Preferences > General > Keys and find Delete. Remove the binding and then select the delete key again from the drop down to the right. That should do it!
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Curious. It works just fine on my MacBook Pro, and always has done.
Hmmm strange, when I searched for this problem I found other MacBook Pro users also having the same issue. Perhaps its a regression to a previous bug that was fixed for some time.
Actually I have now found that my [delete] key now works as a forward delete (only in Eclipse) which is slightly annoying
To be more clear, the original problem I had was deleting resources. When I would select a file in the project explorer and hit delete nothing would happen. I needed to press [Fn]+[delete].
I have now pressed "Restore Defaults" because I could not see a way to make the delete key delete resources but not become a forward-delete when editing.
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