Ctrl click doesn t work in Eclipse Juno

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For every version of Eclipse I ve used prior to Juno  ctrl click would find the declaration of a variable class method  It was an extremely useful feature when dealing with a large code base  How do I get Juno to do this

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I had the exact same issue while working on a GIT based project. I was able to resolve by changing the way i was importing the project in the workspace.

Wrong way : Import project to workspace from GIT perspective , like right click on the GIT URL and selecting the option import which was not recognizing the project facets.

Right way (which resolved my issue): clone the project in GIT perspective , change to JEE Perspective , then import from file > import > Existing Maven Project .

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I encounter this problem when creating workspace project in eclipse 3 7 2  Then I open it using Kepler  4 3   So simply open the project by the eclipse version you created it  3 7 2 in my case  solves the problem  Hope it helps

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On my system  Ctrl click brings up the right-click menu instead of opening the declaration  However  if you hold Ctrl and hover the mouse pointer over the variable class method name  a small boxed menu appears with  open declaration  at the top  You can move the pointer down and click that item to get the desired effect   I m running Ubuntu 14 04 through VMWare on OS X

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If the project is a Maven project  make sure that the java class you have open is inside src main java

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Sometimes if a file is too large  then for Scalability purposes  the navigation is disabled by Eclipse  For me it happened with Eclipse with C    It can be enabled by Window- Preferences- C C   Editor Scalability and then under  Scalability mode settings  uncheck everything

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This bug is really annoying    The only thing that did the trick for me is deleting the project from the workspace  then deleting the  project and  classpath files and then re import it back to the workspace   Hope it will help others

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If you re working on a large project and are working with a repository  you could just have the file opened via the wrong project  I just had two instances of the file open  where one was the one where I couldn t do Ctrl   click  while on the other file I could Ctrl   click on it successfully

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I was facing the same issue in eclipse  I verified preferences and build path and also no error  Tried closing and opening the eclipse but nothing worked  Even I could not run debug configuration  I created a new workspace and Ctrl click     click  Mac os  was working fine     Hope this may help someone

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I had the same issue with PDT in eclipse  I fixed it by removing my include build paths and adding them again

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I m having the same issue in Eclipse Luna in my Ubuntu VM  but I just tried to Ctrl click on a method and it worked  even though my mouse cursor didn t change to a pointer

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I found resolving issues with the project s Java Build Path settings fixed this issue   Right-click the project  select Properties  select Java Build Path    NB  I m using Eclipse Kepler Service Release 2 on Windows 7

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I can confirm that Ctrl   click works fine with the following    Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers  Version  Juno Release Build id  20120606-2254 Operating System   Windows 7  64 Bit   What do you have for the following preference    On Window - gt  Preferences - gt  General - gt  Editors - gt  Text Editors - gt  Hyperlinking - gt  Open Declaration   Here is what I had for a new workspace in Juno      Update  I have not experienced this in the recent past  but I vaguely remember encountering this problem in previous Eclipse releases  Galileo and earlier     All of what follows is worth doing only if we are sure that it s a problem with the Eclipse workspace  A quick way of checking this is to restart eclipse with a new workspace  Do this by going to File -  Switch Workspace -  Other    and choosing the path to a folder which is preferably empty and different than the current workspace folder    If things worked in the new workspace  my fix then was one of the following  in increasing order extremeness      Re-start eclipse  Yup  sometimes that is all it took  Re-start eclipse with the -clean parameter to clean out the workspace   See this   This might specially be worth doing if you used a workspace from an older version of eclipse  When the above failed  and I just had to use my existing workspace  I backed up my workspace folder and restarted Eclipse after deleting WORKSPACE FOLDER  metadata  plugins org eclipse jdt core

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If your build path is correct  the ctrl   click will work

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Please check your  classpath file as well  Some times Eclipse do not redirect when using  ctrl click  to Class or method if classpath is not proper  I had faced same issue in Eclipse Mars but it got resolved when I got proper  classpath file at my work location

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The solution for me was to configure the build path to include the project itself    Right click on open project  highlight build path click on Configure build path    click on Source Click Add Folder    button  Put a check mark next to your project  Click OK    If necessary  click the project menu and choose the    clean       option to rebuild

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I had similar issue  along with this I found that java build path in project properties was missing  Project pulled from repository did not had  project file and eclipse created a default  project file  I copied content of  project xml from other working project and removed the unsed imports  After which everything worked fine   lt projectDescription gt   lt name gt XYZ lt  name gt   lt comment gt  lt  comment gt   lt projects gt   lt  projects gt   lt buildSpec gt       lt buildCommand gt           lt name gt org eclipse wst jsdt core javascriptValidator lt  name gt           lt arguments gt           lt  arguments gt       lt  buildCommand gt       lt buildCommand gt           lt name gt org eclipse jdt core javabuilder lt  name gt       lt  buildCommand gt       lt buildCommand gt           lt name gt org eclipse wst common project facet core builder lt  name gt       lt  buildCommand gt       lt buildCommand gt           lt name gt org eclipse wst validation validationbuilder lt  name gt       lt  buildCommand gt   lt  buildSpec gt   lt natures gt       lt nature gt org eclipse jem workbench JavaEMFNature lt  nature gt       lt nature gt org eclipse wst common modulecore ModuleCoreNature lt  nature gt       lt nature gt org eclipse wst common project facet core nature lt  nature gt       lt nature gt org eclipse jdt core javanature lt  nature gt       lt nature gt org eclipse wst jsdt core jsNature lt  nature gt   lt  natures gt

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I had the same issue  and solved it the following way  My issue came because  I imported a project from Git  which wasn t having the project file  So Eclipse was not recognizing the project as a java one  Ctrl click was not working and so  there was the F3 issue   Solution  not a direct one  but solved my issue    import -  projects from git -  from URI -  select the new project wizard so an empty project with src folder will be created  then copy all the src files in to the folder manually

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For my situation I solved this problem by going to the project properties  select  Java Build Path   and then removing source folders that does not exist anymore

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I faced this issue several times   As described by Ashutosh Jindal  if the Hyperlinking is already enabled and still the ctrl click doesn t work then you need to    Navigate to Java -  Editor -  Mark Occurrences in Preferences Uncheck  Mark occurrences of the selected element in the current file  if its already checked  Now  check on the above mentioned option and then check on all the items under it   Click Apply    This should now enabled the ctrl click functionality

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For me it helped to simply close the edited source file and reopen it  If this doesn t work THEN you can try restarting whole IDE

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I had same problem  i tried to Change in preference  clean work space etc  nothing worked  Solution  Finally i found there is error in class path configuration  after fixing this everything became normal

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Go to   Window -  Preferences -  General -  Editors -  Text Editors -  Hyperlinking  and be sure that   Enable on demand hyperlink style navigation  is checked

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You need to rebuild your workspace using CTRL B  I a problem where I d be able to go to the function declarations but for some I wouldn t  After a rebuild  I could do all  I hope that helps

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