Toggle Breakpoint

One of the most frustrating things for me when transitioning from the default setup in Visual Studio to Eclipse has been the change in keybindings for toggling a breakpoint. I tried setting the “Toggle Breakpoint” key binding in

Window -> Preferences -> General -> Keys

but it did nothing for me while my cursor was active in the editing window. A quick Google search and I stumbled upon this answer on StackOverflow. Turns out, key bindings are related to the perspectives in Eclipse and I needed to enable the “Breakpoints” command group for my perspective. So,

Window -> Customize perspective -> Command Groups Availability

and select “breakpoints”. Now, my custom binding of F9 to the “Toggle Breakpoint” action is usable from the editor window. Sweet.

Theme

Now, dark theme. Visual Studio offers a pretty nice dark theme “out of the box” but the dark theme in Eclipse is…well…junk. I’ve tried a number of dark themes but nothing has been able to compare to the Darkest Dark Theme. This theme is EXACTLY what I was hoping to find. Clean. Polished. Also, actively supported at the time of this writing.