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Asked: 2026-05-23T07:41:05+00:00

I am using Eclipse after coming from a well known commercial IDE. I am

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I am using Eclipse after coming from a well known commercial IDE. I am struggling with a very simple user requirement.

I want to search for the word under the
cursor with one key press!

The only way I know to select the element at the cursor is mouse double click. CTRL-LEFT/RIGHT, moves the cursor to start/end of the current word, with a SHIFT selecting as it goes. This means you need to CTRL-LEFT, CTRL-SHIFT-RIGHT – CTRL-K to do a search.

So if I can map the double click functionality to a keyboard key, my problem is solved – “Mapped Key” + CTRL-K.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The menu option Edit | Find Word does what you want. It doesn’t have any keybinding by default, but you can add one in Window | Preferences, General -> Keys

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