Is there way to expand all folders in Eclipse project view and search results?

Question

I\'m spending a lot of time manually expanding deeply-nested folders in tree views like the Project Explorer and the File Search result tree. Is there a keyboard shortcut or

Answer 1

Disable Focus on Active Task option - shown below.

Answer 2

Shift + Right arrow, repeatedly.

Answer 3

shift + * Expand ALl

Shift _ - Collapse All

that's it.

Answer 4

In Windows: ( I'm using STS v2.8 based on Eclipse 3.7, maybe a little different... )

in Project/Package Explorer:

Expand all : Shift + Numpad *

Collpse all: Ctrl + Shift + Numberpad_Divide, or just click the small "-" icon at the top right of current view.

But from wat I can see, Expand All action always make the Eclipse/STS not responding (e.x, we may set class files - compiled or in JARs - visible in current view, which cause too many file to be expanded), so maybe it's better to select specified package first.

Also these shortcuts very helpful to locate files:

Ctrl + Shift + R: open resource ( all file types, java, jsp, jspf, properties ...), it's my most frequent use and favorite shortcut;

Ctrl + Shift + T: open type ( for Java files only)

In Search result tab, there are Expand All(+ sign with border) and Collapse All(- sign with border) icons at the top right of the tab.

Answer 5

Eclipse on Linux:

SHIFT + RIGHT arrow

Expand all folders below the selected folder. If you do it multiple times, next set of folders expand.

SHIFT + LEFT arrow

Collapses all folders below the selected folder.

Eclipse on Windows:

Right arrow -->> Expand
Left arrow -->> Collapse

Answer 6

On Mac: Select a folder and press Alt+ARROW_RIGHT. That should expand all subfolders in the file explorer of eclipse.