In some editors there exist plugins implementing a feature called ‘hungry backspace’ or ‘hungry delete’.
If this mode is active in a text editor then one hit to the backspace key will automatically delete all whitespace chars backwards from the current cursor position up to the first non-whitespace character.
For example, this feature exists for Emacs and IntelliJ IDEA.
Does anyone know if it is also available in Eclipse?
Alt-Del is probably as close as you’re going to get without writing a plugin yourself. Others have asked for this feature (coming from intelliJ) but so far it doesn’t exist, or it’s not published.
-Adam