Although Geertjan Wielenga has been working with the NetBeans IDE and Platform for some time, he recently was introduced to a few NetBeans IDE Java shortcuts. He will be adding these to the NetBeans IDE Keyboard Shortcut Card, which can always be found under the "Help" menu in the IDE, for version 6.9. He decided to share his top 10 recently realized shortcuts in a blog entry. They are listed as follows: FIRST SHORTCUT

Type "fcom" (without the quotes, same as all the rest below) and then press Tab. You now have this, i.e., a brand new code fold:

1.// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="comment"> 2.// </editor-fold>

SECOND SHORTCUT

Type "bcom" and then press Tab to create the start of a new set of comments in your code:

1./**/

THIRD SHORTCUT

Type "runn" and press Tab and you'll have all of this:

1.Runnable runnable = new Runnable() { 2. 3. public void run() { 4. 5. } 6.};

FOURTH SHORTCUT

If I have this:

1.String something = "";

...and then below that type "forst" and press Tab, I now have this:

1.String something = ""; 2.for (StringTokenizer stringTokenizer = new StringTokenizer(something); stringTokenizer.hasMoreTokens();) { 3. String token = stringTokenizer.nextToken(); 4. 5.}

Also, experiment with "forc", "fore", "fori", "forl", and "forv"!

FIFTH SHORTCUT

I always knew that "sout" turns into "System.out.println("");" but did you know that (again assuming you first have a string something like above) if you type "soutv" you end up with this:

1.System.out.println("something = " + something);

SIXTH SHORTCUT

Next, here are the new shortcuts that will work only in 6.9:

* as - assert=true; * su - super * db - double * sh - short * na - native * tr - transient * vo - volatile

SEVENTH SHORTCUT

I knew that "ifelse" would resolve to an if/else block. But did you know that if you don't need an 'else', you can simply type "iff", press Tab, and then end up with this:

1.if (exp) { 2. 3.}

EIGHTH SHORTCUT

In 6.9, the "sw" shortcut expands to the following:

1.switch (var) { 2. case val: 3. 4. break; 5. default: 6. throw new AssertionError(); 7.}

NINTH SHORTCUT

If you're using while loops, experiment with "whileit", "whilen", and "whilexp".

TENTH SHORTCUT

Always remember these: "im" expands to "implements; "ex" to "extends".

Note: to clarify the code listed in this article, visit Wielenga's original blog post.

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