Eclipse shortcut for “Next error” (Ctrl-.) not working

Question

I see in several published lists of Eclipse shortcuts that Ctrl + - is supposed to take me to the next error (and Ctrl + - to the previous one).

However, those combinations do nothing in my environment. I am running Eclipse Luna in Windows 8.1.

In Preferences->Key , I see Ctrl + - is bound to an action named Next , not Next error . I don't see a Next error anywhere. I unbound it and assigned a new key combination to it, just in case, to no avail.

Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks.

Answer 1

Turns out CTRL - and CTRL - work only for errors in current editor window.

There is a discussion and some suggestions for finding the next error in the whole project here:

How can I go to the next Eclipse marker (eg build error) using the keyboard?

Answer 2

Sometimes there are two bindings for the keys.

Go to Preferences -> Keys. In the "type filter text" field type in "Ctrl+." (not the keys, but the letters)

If there are more than one than the one not named "Next" - it will be overriding it. You can safely select the other one (not the "Next" one) and "Unbind Command"

The PDT plugin always seems to add one that I have to delete.