Eclipse shortcut to select or remove all spaces up to (but excluding) the next word

Question

For years I was working with Netbeans and the following is one of the very few features that I cannot find in eclipse:

How can I select or remove all trailing or preceding spaces up to (but excluding) the next or previous word respectively, in one keystroke combination.

In netbeans Ctrl+Shift+Right / Ctrl+Shift+Left and Ctrl+Backspace / Ctrl+Delete would just do this.

Would [Eclipse 20199.12/4.14](https://stackoverflow.com/a/58344908/6309) help? — VonC, Oct 11 '19 at 16:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 13 '16 at 06:59

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In eclipse,

Shift+Ctrl+Left   =  Select previous word

Shift+Ctrl+Right  =  Select next word

Use Ctrl+Right or Ctrl+Left = To jump to end or start of a word.

Then pressing Shift+Ctrl+Right or Shift+Ctrl+Left twice selection will select white spaces between two words.

answered Oct 13 '16 at 06:59

Chandrayya G K

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I cannot reproduce this. I still get the spaces and the next word selected. I only need to select the white space. – Marinos An Oct 13 '16 at 14:46
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Which editor you are using Java editor C/C++ editor or text editor? – Chandrayya G K Oct 17 '16 at 07:06
Java editor, but same happens on html, xml, json, md, plain file editors. Strangely it does NOT happen on js editor (in forword selection only). – Marinos An Oct 17 '16 at 11:30

Eclipse shortcut to select or remove all spaces up to (but excluding) the next word

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