Eclipse inverse of F3 - Alt-Left doesn't always work

I'm loving Eclipse's feature of pressing F3 (or Ctrl + click) to jump to go to a declaration, but I also would like a keyboard shortcut to go back. Alt + ← doesn't always do that (it sometimes jumps to some other line in the class I'm visit开发者_StackOverflow中文版ing, but sometimes it does work, still haven't found a pattern in this) and Ctrl + Q isn't useful as I didn't always have something edited.

Alt + ← seems to be the ultimate answer: How to go back in Eclipse?

This is also mentioned Eclipse Documentation.

The issue is familiar and really annoying, sometimes it jumps back right and sometimes goes to other place.

The solution for this is:

Unbind the key that is called 'Back', because it confuses the editor with the Backward History

Window->Preferences->General->Keys and search for Back

when you select Back clear its binding by pressing the backspace key in the keyboard

Sorry for reviving an old question, but since you still haven't got an accepted answer, I thought I'd give it a shot.

Alt + ← seems to take you back and forth between visited files. If the declaration is in the same file I would expect it not to jump back, but I haven't got a working Eclipse installation at hand. I'm guessing that could be the reason you're not seeing it work as expected ?

On OS X:

Command + [ : Move backward in the editor navigation history

Command + ] : Move forward in the editor navigation history