delete a line in Eclipse

Question

In a visual studio, you would use Ctrl-x, where is in eclipse I am force to select a line or if it is empty, go the beginning of the line before clicking delete/backspace. Is there a quick shortcut?

Thanks

Answer 1

Ctrl + D

From Help->Key Assist... there are all kinds of useful keyboard shortcuts for Eclipse.

Answer 2

Ctrl + D should delete the line.

Answer 3

In the future, if you need to quickly find a keyboard shortcut for something simple, just hit Ctrl-Shift-L.

Answer 4

And if you want it as a list to take a print or something, here is a link to the eclipse shortcut pdf.

shortcut to pdf page

Answer 5

To quickly find shortcuts, hit Ctrl-L, Ctrl-L (Ctrl-L twice), then type something approximating what your command does in the filter text for the key assignments. This works pretty well for most shortcuts, although it can be a bit tricky for some where the name of their menu assignment bears no relation to that of their command in this list (for instance, Team->Revert to base appears in the keys list as 'Replace with latest from repository'), so sometimes a little lateral thought is required :-) If no shortcut exists, it's easy to add one in the keys dialog.

Answer 6

You can reassign the Delete Line command to your favourite hotkey.
Window->Preferences
General->Editors->Keys.

Now type "Delete" and reassign the filtered commando.