My delete key won't work in Eclipse in OS X

My delete key isn't working in Eclipse in OS X. However, Shift-Delete deletes.

Delete works elsewhere, so a setting must have been unwittingly changed. Any idea what it is or how to fix it?

Restarting Ec开发者_运维知识库lipse didn't help.

Check your key mapping for delete and cut commands:

Maybe the delete key has been re-affected.

I'm on a mac and this is a trip. None of the answers are working for me. I tried everything suggested here :(

I was about to reinstall eclipse and decided to see if a restart would help. I logged off...

 | Log out [user]

and then logged back on and I got control of my arrows and delete key again.

!!! UPDATE !!! If I close one program in the doc I get it all back.

This generally happens to me when Firefox Crashes

I have this problem with Helios too sometimes. It seems like it has to do with changing focus to another app and when i return, the arrow keys and delete don't work. If you also have problems with the arrow keys, the solution is to change the

Preferences | General | Keys | Scheme

I just change it to something and change it back and it solves the issue.

STRANGE SOLUTION WORKS! Recover by randomly closing one program in the Mac dock

Pick any program in the dock and close it. This usually happens to me when Firefox crashes, but it might work for you as well.

Added this as an alternative answer because it appears to be relevant —Shanimal

None of these answers help me. It works after following actions:

• Go to Preference > General > Keys > Delete
• Clear Binding text field
• Assign Tab to Binding text field, then click OK (it works as press tab to delete files)
• Go back Preference > General > Keys > Delete
• Clear Binding text field
• Assign "Delete" to Binding text field, then click OK

That's all.

This was a known bug in previous (non-Helios -- 3.6) versions of Eclipse. Apparently, the bug was addressed in Helios:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=283415

Hi Fn key and delete works for me.

What I did I clear the binding and Apply Then I again set the binding and Apply. Then Restart the Eclipse.

I just had the same problem too. Got the delete key to work again by right clicking one of the tabs I had open in eclipse and clicking "Close All"

Somehow that worked.

Someone mentioned it generally happens after firefox crashes, oddly enough that did happen after my firefox crashed.

Hope this helps someone.

The same problem here using Mac OSX 10.7.5 and Eclipse 4.2.2 loosing DEL Key, Save Shortcut (and maybe others)

Solution for me is to click into another file-editor window and back into the one i was editing.