ABAP_to_the_Future

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ABAP in Eclipse
Figure 1.18 Feature Availability Matrix
In order to make the idea of development environment–related improvements a
bit more real, it’s time for a specific example. If you download the Luna release of
Eclipse, you’ll see a welcome page containing a What’s new section, which gives
you a list of the most important improvements between this new version of
Eclipse and the last one. As might be expected, most of the items in this list do not
have anything to do with SAP—but when it comes to improvements in how you
can customize the screen layout in Eclipse and new features for the code editor,
these are indeed improvements we can take advantage of.
One of the new features that was added in Luna is the ability to show (and edit)
different parts of the same program at once (Figure 1.19). If you press (CTRL) +
(SHIFT) + (-), then the editor gets split in two vertically, and if you press (CTRL) +
(SHIFT) + (¡), then it gets split in two horizont ally. In the first case, you might
want to have the variable declarations at the start of a method in the top box and
the code that uses those variables in the second box. This helps to avoid paging up
and down or double-clicking a variable to reach its definition.
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