Shortcuts That Can Make an Abaper Life Easier

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ABAP Development: Shortcuts that can makean ABAP'er life easier

Posted by Yuvaraj S Sep 17, 2013

Introduction

ABAP is quite different from many contemporary programming languages in several ways.Some aspects of ABAP would make us wonder why is it made this complex while someaspects are so awesome and more comfortable for a programmer than any other languagecan provide.

Two of those things that I find so cool are:

• Its ingenuous IDE (ABAP Editor) and• Its cool Debugger

Eventhough the SAP IDE does not support some of the features which more prominentIDE's like Eclipse etc have, I find it so comfortable to code in ABAP Editor compared toothers. The reason is because of the below shortcuts and customizations available with it. Iam listing the few which I use constantly and without which I cannot think of coding ABAP.

Most of the programmers even with a little bit of ABAP experience would have come accross the details listed here. If you have, please

ignore and if you haven't then the stage is yours..

Shortcut What it does

Ctrl + D Duplicate any line.

eg. i_vbap TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF vbap +Ctrl-D = i_vbap TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF vbap

i_vbap TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF vbap

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ABAP Development: Shortcuts that can make an ABAP'er life easier


Ctrl + / Jump to the "command field" where we entert-codes. This comes really handy and savesa jump from keyboard to mouse and back tokeyboard just to click on the box.

Ctrl + J Convert to Proper case where the first letterof every word becomes a capital letter. Thisis pretty useful when writing comments.

eg. * this is a comment which will give absolutely no

useful information will be changed to

* This Is A Comment Which Will Give Absolutely No

Useful Information

Ctrl + I &

Ctrl + Shift + I

Incremental search. This is a little improved'Find' (Ctrl + F) function which searchesas soon as you type. Useful for impatientpeople. Add shift to search backwards.

Ctrl + K Toggle between Upper case and LowerCase.

Alt + Selection This is useful in situation where you needto select only the field names of a particulartable.

eg.

caufv-aufnr,

caufv-werks,

caufv-objnr,

caufv-plnbez,

caufv-gamng,

caufv-gasmg,

caufv-gmein,

caufv-plnnr,

caufv-plnal,



caufv-dispo,

caufv-fevor,

caufv-cy_seqnr ,

caufv-aufpl,

caufv-gstrp,

caufv-gltrp,

caufv-gstrs,

caufv-gltrs,

caufv-gstri,

caufv-gltri,

In these values, u can select only the fieldnames by pressing Alt key and get theclipboard filled like this.

aufnr,

werks,

objnr,

plnbez,

gamng,

gasmg,

gmein,

plnnr,



plnal,

dispo,

fevor,

cy_seqnr ,

aufpl,

gstrp,

gltrp,

gstrs,

gltrs,

gstri,

gltri,

Tab & Shift tab Increase and Decrease Intend

Ctrl + O Goto a particular line in the program

Ctrl + Shift + S Save your program in Desktop in .abapformat. I came know about .abap only afterlearning this short cut.

Ctrl + Selection When you do a selection with **** + -> or<- hold on to Ctrl to jump every word in thatdirection.

Ctrl + . & Ctrl + , Comment and Un-Comment selected lines.

Ctrl+Alt+T Swaps current line with the Upper Line.

eg. INCLUDE ZTEST_ABAP_HTTP_CLIENT_TOP. INCLUDE ZTEST_ABAP_HTTP_CLIENT_C01.becomes

INCLUDE ZTEST_ABAP_HTTP_CLIENT_C01.INCLUDE ZTEST_ABAP_HTTP_CLIENT_TOP.

Ctrl+Shift+L/X Deletes the whole line

Ctrl + ] & Ctrl + [ Jump to previous or next paragraph.



A paragraph is created by leaving an empty linebetween statements.

Ctrl + Shift + Num8 &

Ctrl + Shift + Num2

Move the lines up and down in the editorwindow while the cursor stays in the sameplace.

This is similar to Page Up & Page Down butinstead, it does not scroll an entire page butonly one line.

Ctrl + Spacebar Display options to complete a command.

Eg. After typing CREATE, Ctrl + Spacebarwill show you the list to choose DATA orOBJECT..

More Editor Tools:

Apart from this, there are a few other things that can be set in Editor options



like,

Code Templates

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Here I use a template for the text. This could be a text that is used for marking modificationsor Defenition and implementation of local classes etc.

* Begin of Insertion <SID>K12345 <username> * End of Insertion <SID>K12345 <username>

i.e when I press i* in the editor, it will prompt for code completion..

When I press Tab for completion, it pops up for TR Number…

The TR number that we give will be added in the comment.

Variable Name Suggestions

This is just a small setting but it will save you from Copy pasting or re-typing small words.





When you check this box, it will suggest even for variable names like…

Particularly useful for longer variable names.

Conclusion

Apart from the editor and debugger functions, the navigation and where used-list are otherfuntionalities which we use more often. Especially the code maintenance and supportactivities are comparitively less hectic just because these features.





Another cool way to extend its core editor functionality for customizations could be byproviding API's even for the application programmers to code and customize the editorfeatures. It will also add to the creativity aspect on SAP side since any third programmercould come with an awesome idea as an editor extension.

As far as I have explored, I havent found any BADI or classes which can be used to performeditor functions. May be I have to look more or wait...

Update: I got impressed with the response for this blog and it made me dig deeper inside thesubject and came across this.

Programming Shortcuts - The GEEK Style:

Most of the shortcuts listed and not listed here can be seen from the SAP-GUI editoroptions.

Again, click on the editor options button in the bottom-right corner of the SAP Editor screen,



and choose...

Now.. Most of the shortcuts listed above are available in the above list.

We can re-assign any of the actions with any shortcuts we desire..





There are also cool actions which are not assigned to any shortcuts, Copy Append is onesuch shortcut which I find to be very useful, un-assigned.

I am assigning a new shortcut Ctrl + Alt + C for copy append..

Now by pressing Ctrl + Alt + C, I can append contents into my clipboard.

Eg.





+ Ctrl + Alt + C + =

Similarly you can set shortcuts for Cut Append, Navigating to Bookmarks, FormattingSelected text etc...

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Sep 17, 2013 12:15 PM Fred Verheul

Hi Yuvaraj,

Thanks for sharing these shortcuts and other tips.

Though I consider myself an experienced ABAP developer, there were a few shortcuts Ididn't know yet.

And since I'm not working as much in the new Eclipse editor as I'd like to, these will stillcome in handy the next couple of years.

Best regards, Fred





Sep 17, 2013 12:55 PM Chandra Shekhar Agarwal

Thanks for sharing

Sep 17, 2013 12:58 PM Yuvaraj S Fred Verheul in response to

Hi Fred,

Thanks a lot for your kind words.

I hear people say that Eclipse is particularly useful when we want code in multiple platformsat the same time like Netweaver JAVA, mobile and ABAP. As far as application developersare considered, SAP GUI editor cannot be replaced, atleast for a couple of years.

Sep 17, 2013 1:13 PM Ravi Shankar

Nice Info.... Alt+selection is very useful .Thanks.

Sep 17, 2013 1:21 PM Sijin Sij

Really helpful and going to implement some techniques in my daily routine.

Thanks for sharing.

Sep 17, 2013 1:59 PM Utkarsha Khadke

Cool info!

However, I was wondering if you knew the shortcut to maximizing & minimizing the Editorwindows & moving them over the screen. This comes in handy when you are comparingwhat is displayed on 2 separate windows of the SAP GUI.

Sep 17, 2013 2:09 PM manjunatha k



Good job Yuvraj..........Thanks for sharing

Sep 17, 2013 2:34 PM Yuvaraj S Utkarsha Khadke in response to

Well, for comparing different parts of the same program, I would recomment the embeddedsplitter, the small button on the upper right corner of your editor screen,

when you are comparing two different programs, I would go for SE39.

But if you really insist on using different windows, then u can make use of the Windows shortcuts,

• Alt + Space , R - Restore,• Alt + Space, X - Maximize,• Alt + Space, N - Minimize and• Alt + Space, M - Move the window....

Hope it helps,

Yuvaraj S

Sep 17, 2013 2:58 PM Utkarsha Khadke Yuvaraj S in response to

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Oh yeah. That helps! thanks a lot!

Sep 17, 2013 3:07 PM suresh alapati

it would help a lot and reduces time.thanks for sharing.

Sep 17, 2013 3:59 PM Rodolfo Felipe Celante

I would like to contribute with 6 more shortcuts.

Ctrl + L = All text lowercase

Ctrl + U = All text uppercase

Ctrl + N = Open a new Window in SAP

Shift + F1 = Execute Pretty Printer

Ctrl + F2 = Check Sintax

Ctrl + F3 = Activate Object.

Best regards

Sep 17, 2013 4:32 PM Naresh Krishnamoorthy

Valuable Info...Many Thanks for the share.

Best Regards,

Naresh K.

Sep 17, 2013 4:47 PM Mayur Priyan

Hi,



Good work.

I am adding few more to shortcuts to your list.

Ctrl+F - Search

Ctrl+G - Find next ( when the Search window is closed )

Ctrl+O - Go to line

Ctrl+L - Small letters

Ctrl+U - Uppercase letters

Ctrl+J - Camel case letters

Ctrl+K - Switch between Upper and Lower Case

Ctrl+H - Find and Replace

Ctrl+Shift+I - Increment search Backward

Ctrl+Shift+S - Save Hardcopy

Ctrl+Shift+L/X - Deletes whole line

Ctrl+Shift+V - Gives All Paste options

Ctrl+Alt+T - Swaps line with Upper case

Regards,

Mayur Priyan

Sep 17, 2013 5:05 PM Eric Peterson



Thanks for sharing. Every time someone shares something like this I pick up one or twomore tricks.

I do have one correction, though. Ctrl + J converts a selection to proper case, not camelcase.

This Is Proper Case.

ThisIsCamelCase.

Sep 17, 2013 8:11 PM santhosh surapuram

Thanks for sharing the info

Sep 18, 2013 5:59 AM KIRAN RAJAN

Hi Yuvaraj,

thank you for sharing the document

Sep 18, 2013 9:00 AM Yuvaraj S Rodolfo Felipe Celante in response to

I have not been a big fan of doing Activate, Check etc using Ctrl + Function buttons. I have

always felt as if the fucntion keys belong in a diffrent island . Thats why I didnt mentionany of those. Its a biased opinion though.

Sep 18, 2013 9:01 AM Yuvaraj S Eric Peterson in response to

Thanks for mentioning. I have corrected it now..

Sep 18, 2013 9:06 AM Yuvaraj S Mayur Priyan in response to

Thanks for expanding the list.

You are awesome..!



Ctrl+Alt+T Swaps with the upper line (not Upper case).

and Ctrl+Shift+V does not work in SAP Netweaver 7.2

Sep 18, 2013 9:06 AM Nellai Muthu Kumar

Yuvraj,

Useful Information..Thank you..

Warm regards,

Nellai Muthu..

Sep 18, 2013 9:42 AM Suhas Saha

Judging from the responses i think you should have posted this as a WiKi so that others

could have added to the list of shortcuts easily

If you have already done so, i'll then ask you to add the link to your blog for easy reference

- Suhas

Sep 18, 2013 10:46 AM Mayur Priyan Yuvaraj S in response to

Hi,



Yup, Ctrl+Alt+T - Swaps line with Upper line* . It was a typo ..

Sep 18, 2013 11:59 AM Phillip Morgan

A definite Like!

I knew most of the shortcuts but the ones I did not know are awesome (ex.:Ctrl+Alt+T).

Just one thing:

For commenting code I do this:

CTRL < to comment

CTRL > to uncomment (they are usually on same key so this is with SHIFT)

Could not get yours to work.

Thanks!

Sep 18, 2013 12:48 PM Yuvaraj S Suhas Saha in response to

Thanks for ur comment

Posting it as a Wiki would have been better. Anyway I am updating the list when someonementions any lesser known shortcut..

Sep 18, 2013 12:55 PM Yuvaraj S Phillip Morgan in response to

Well, thanks to Mayur Priyan for Ctrl+Alt+T...

Sep 18, 2013 1:12 PM vaibhav sonawane

Hi Yuvaraj,

http://scn.sap.com/people/mayur.priyan



Very informatic.

Thanks for sharing.

Best regards,

Vaibhav

Sep 18, 2013 1:16 PM Sathish GS

Great Job Yuvraj.

Really useful info for everyone!!.

Thanks a lot,

Sep 18, 2013 1:29 PM KIRAN RAJAN Mayur Priyan in response to

hi,

Ctrl+Shift+V very useful one

thank you

Sep 18, 2013 1:52 PM Mayur Priyan KIRAN RAJAN in response to

Hi Kiran,

i am glad you found it useful.

Cheers



Sep 18, 2013 1:56 PM Satbirsingh Hundal

Hi Yuvaraj,

Very useful info,

Thanks for sharing.

Best Regards ,

Satbir

Sep 18, 2013 2:14 PM kavyashree m j

Thanks for sharing!

Sep 18, 2013 3:45 PM Rajesh Akarte

Useful information thanks for sharing.

Sep 19, 2013 5:14 AM Ayyam Perumal B

Hi Yuvraj,

Simple, Crisp, and Useful Information that i hope all Abapers should be aware of.

Presented very clean and attractive. Good work. Keep Going..

Regards,

AyyamPerumal

Sep 19, 2013 6:55 PM venkata vamsi krishna ch

Thanks for sharing tips ..will reduce some typing stuff



Reagrds,

Vamsi

Sep 20, 2013 2:15 AM Christian Glenn Nieveras

Thank you for sharing this knowledge.

Regards,

Christian

Sep 20, 2013 2:33 AM Garth Joshua

Thanks for sharing Yuvaraj. Ctrl + '/' certainly saves one quite a bit of time.

Ctrl + SPACEBAR - Gives you a predictive drop-down list of commands for a keyword. Thisonly works once the IDE has proposed a keyword. As an exmple, type 'in' , the IDE willpropose 'INCLUDE TYPE' (or other), then hit Ctrl + SPACEBAR.

Cheers

Sep 20, 2013 6:00 AM Ramesh T

Helpful document...

I am added few short cuts

Ctrl + T - Converts first letter CAPITAL



Example:

fld1(20) TYPE c,

select and Ctrl + T

It Changes like this

Fld1(20) type c,

Ctrl + [ - Go to first line of a Paragraph

Curser will be in first line

| TYPES: BEGIN OF ty_excel, Fld1(20) type c, fld2(20) TYPE c, fld3(20) TYPE c, END OF ty_excel.

Ctrl + ] - Go to last line of a Paragraph

Curser will be in last line

TYPES: BEGIN OF ty_excel, Fld1(20) type c, fld2(20) TYPE c, fld3(20) TYPE c, | END OF ty_excel.

Alt + Selection

We can add and delete values in selected area

Select with Alt + Selection and Delete



TYPES: BEGIN OF ty_excel, Fld1(20) type fld2(20) TYPE fld3(20) TYPE

END OF ty_excel.

Select with Alt + Selection and Enter values


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Regards,

Ramesh.T

Sep 20, 2013 6:00 AM Yuvaraj S Garth Joshua in response to

Hi Garth,

I came across this 'Ctrl + Spacebar' shortcut, but this does not work with

SAP_BASIS 701 & SAP_ABA 701 (the version that I use)..

Any idea from which version it works?

Sep 20, 2013 6:55 AM Sanil Bhandari

Very useful information

Regards

Sanil Bhandari

Sep 20, 2013 7:22 AM Garth Joshua Yuvaraj S in response to

Hi Yuvaraj,

This feature is available on version 7.02, but have used it on previous versions as well.

Cheers

Sep 20, 2013 9:38 AM Yuvaraj S Ramesh T in response to



Thanks for the Suggestions Ramesh,

Added your suggestions in the list..

Sep 20, 2013 9:45 AM Yuvaraj S Garth Joshua in response to

Thanks for reply,

I figured it out finally. The cursor position should also be in the right place for the editor topropose.

Eg. DATA<space> and Ctrl + spacebar suggests for Begin-of or End-of..

Sep 20, 2013 9:52 AM Ramesh T Yuvaraj S in response to

Thank You..

Sep 20, 2013 9:55 AM Nilesh Mohite Yuvaraj S in response to

Hello Yuvaraj,

Thanks a lot for shareing such a valuable Information with us.

Its really useful to me

Thanks,

Nilesh.

Sep 20, 2013 10:44 AM OmChandra L



Hi ,

if we define a Structure.This feature is avalible from EHP5

1.Type 'TYPE' and press Ctrl + Space

2.Along with this without moving the cursor press Shift + Enter and give the DB tablename .

3.Click on ‘Preview TYPE’ and Select the fields Required

4.Press Ok.

Here we will get Structure and fields descriptions automatically.

Ex: types : begin of ty_mara,

matnr type mara-matnr, "material number

mtart type mara-mtart, "material type

end of ty_mara.

Regards,

OmChandra

Sep 20, 2013 11:55 AM Madhu Vadlamani

Really good one.

Regards,

Madhu.



Sep 20, 2013 1:35 PM Aby Jacob

Thanks Yuvaraj !!

Appreciate your ABAP tips

Sep 20, 2013 2:03 PM Purushottam Sonawane

Hi Yuvaraj,

I had bookmarked your blog yesterday itself but came to know the real importance of it today

. Didn't know many of them like alt+selection. Really helpful shortcuts and actually I enjoyed a lot

using them. Keep sharing such informative things.

Cheers,

PS

Sep 20, 2013 3:18 PM Rodolfo Felipe Celante

Hi experts,

I remembered one more shortcut to help us.

To assist in locating codes, can be a bookmark, using a combination: CTRL + ALT + (0 to 9).

To go to bookmark created, use combination CTRL + (0 to 9).

Example:

CRTL + ALT + 2 (Create a bookmark)



CTRL + 2 (Go to bookmark).

Best regards.

Sep 20, 2013 11:07 PM Krishna Teja Peddada

Hi Yuvaraj,

thanks to make time to share it. Definitly handy info for all the ABAPers here.

Thanks,

Krishna Teja Peddada.

Sep 21, 2013 4:54 PM Poorva Salve

Hi Yuvaraj,

Thanks for sharing this valuable information. All these shortcuts come handy while coding.Special mention of the embedded splitter in ABAP editor. Thanks for sharing.

Sep 22, 2013 12:08 PM Susmitha Susan Thomas

This would be useful. Thanks for sharing.

Sep 23, 2013 7:08 AM vamsi krishna

Hi Yuvraj,

Thank you for sharing!!



definitely makes my life easier!

A lot easier

Regards

Vamsi

Sep 23, 2013 7:38 AM Prerna Rathore

Nice tips...

Thanks for sharing...:)

Sep 23, 2013 9:14 AM Vijay Hariharan

'Coding mein 2 hi raste hote hai.. ek Short-cut, dusra chota Short-cut'

Thanks for taking the time to list down the short-cuts, this'll help save the most precious

commodity we have.. Time

Thanks & Regards,

Vijay

Sep 23, 2013 9:57 AM Pooja Goel

Thanks for the valuable sharing...

Sep 23, 2013 10:34 AM Peter Inotai

I also like the Formatting -> Enable Auto Bracket option. Very useful for short method call.



It's adds the ')' automatically anytime you type '('.

Peter

Sep 23, 2013 12:06 PM Tamilnesan G Utkarsha Khadke in response to

Hi Utkarsha,

As mentioned by Yuvaraj, Alt+ Space Combination works with all Windows applications. You can try it

out even in your Windows Media Player, My Documents Folder etc.,

If you are using Windows 7 or Higher Version of Operating System,

Click on the Title Bar and simply drag it:-

Drag it to the top - Maximize the whole window (Similar to double click on the Title Bar)

Drag it to the left - Fixes your windows to the left half of your screen.

Similarly for the right side.

Thank you!

Sep 23, 2013 1:44 PM chinni adapa

Hi All,



Keyboard shortcuts for left - hand people are need in order to have the same functionality asCTRL+C (to copy), CTRL+X (to cut) and CTRL+V (to paste).

CTRL+INS = CTRL+C

SHIFT+DEL = CTRL+X

SHIFT+INS = CTRL+V

Thanks & Regards,

Chinni

Sep 24, 2013 2:25 PM Santosh kotagi

Very much usefull..

Thanks for sharing Yuvaraj ..

Sep 24, 2013 7:35 PM Andrew Zugay

Thanks Yuvaraj (and also to everyone else who contributed more to this post). With eachadvance of the ABAP Editor more features are added and it is very helpful to have someonelist them and show examples.

One question though, is there a way to save Code Templates globally so they are sharedamong all developers? Patterns are helpful but not interactive or dynamic like the codetemplates.

Regards

Andy



Sep 25, 2013 7:35 AM Ravi Shankar Rodolfo Felipe Celante in response to

Very Nice

Sep 25, 2013 7:39 AM Yuvaraj S Andrew Zugay in response to

Hello Andy,

Thanks for your comments..

Thats an interesting question.

Well most of the settings that we do in ABAP editor including the Code Templates andShortCut Keys can be shared.

All these settings are stored in Local PC as XML files.

In Windows 7, they can be accessed by the following path..

"C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\SAP\SAP GUI\ABAP Editor"

or simply start->run-> Type %Appdata%-> enter will take you to the userdata folders,

goto SAP->SAPGUI->ABAP Editor Folder from there...

This folder has XML files for all the settings that we make in the SAP GUI Editor options.

• To share Code templates, share the file abap_user.xml file..• To share the Shortcut Key configuration, share the file keymap.xml & keymap.xslt..



In platforms other than Windows 7, there should be a similar folder, probably in a differentlocation..

Sep 25, 2013 11:44 AM Vishal Singh Yadav

Thanks For Sharing

Sep 26, 2013 8:17 AM Poorva Salve Yuvaraj S in response to

Helpful !!

Sep 26, 2013 8:51 PM Rafael Bacellar Rodolfo Felipe Celante in response to

Thanks for the share!

Sep 27, 2013 1:51 AM Jogeswara Rao Kavala

Hi Yuvraj,

Just come across this document. No wonder it is attracting these many likes and praises.

Very useful knowledge sharing.

Congratulations!

Jogeswara Rao K

Sep 27, 2013 11:16 AM Ajay Bose S

very helpful and useful !!!

Sep 27, 2013 12:09 PM anju e v

Great post Yuvraj..indeed make abaper's life easier.



Sep 27, 2013 12:15 PM Shafique Shaikh

Very useful information, Yuvraj. Thanks for sharing.

Sep 27, 2013 12:16 PM N Sethia

Thanks Yuvraj for updating about shortcut and specially for editor option .

Sep 27, 2013 2:31 PM Delli Kumar

really its very helpful yuvaraj,, appreciated for your inputs.. Thanks,,

Sep 27, 2013 3:01 PM Sushant Tiwarekar

Very Nice Document.

Regards,

Sushant

Sep 27, 2013 3:10 PM Arpit Gupta

Great Post...

Keep up the good work.

Sep 28, 2013 8:22 AM shri vas Yuvaraj S in response to

let me know the exact difference between r3 and ecc6.0 and 4.7? what makes change.

Sep 28, 2013 10:05 AM Kumud Singh Suhas Saha in response to

I am just wondering, had Yuvaraj posted it as a wiki, would it still have appeared on the frontpage of SCN!? I think Moshe Naveh would need to chime in here!

http://scn.sap.com/people/moshe.naveh



Regards,

Kumud

Sep 29, 2013 6:57 AM Vimal Vidyadharan

Thanks Yuvaraj for this wonderful post. You wouldn't believe that this is also circulating viaemail between many ABAPers. In fact I read the email a few minutes before reaching thispost.

Sep 30, 2013 6:46 AM Cobain Kurt

Thanks. This is useful information.

Sep 30, 2013 8:14 AM Alenlee James

Nice one bro...........Very Very useful doc.

Sep 30, 2013 9:12 AM SHAILESH DESAI

Hi Yuvraj,

Thanks for posting good document.

Thanks,

Shailesh

Sep 30, 2013 10:04 AM Riju Thomas

Hi Yuvaraj,



Very useful information, Thanks for sharing.

Regards,

Riju.

Sep 30, 2013 10:17 AM Farid Hasan

Hi Yuvi,

Thanx for sharing..useful,reduce some typing work

Sep 30, 2013 10:22 AM Ramesh T

Hi Yuvaraj,

This will covers all shortcuts.....

Description Shift Ctrl Alt Key

Move left by one char Left

Select char left fromcursor

Shift Left

Select char left fromcursor in Block Mode

Shift Alt Left

Move right by onechar

Right

Select char right fromcursor

Shift Right

Select char right fromcursor in Block Mode

Shift Alt Right

Move cursor one linedown

Down



Select text fromcurrent position untilsame position inprevious line

Shift Down

Select text fromcurrent position untilsame position inprevious line in BlockMode

Shift Alt Down

Move cursor one lineup

Up

Select text fromcurrent position untilsame position in nextline

Shift Up

Select text fromcurrent position untilsame position in nextline in Block Mode

Shift Alt Up

Move cursor to thebeginning of the line

Home

Select text fromcursor position untilbeginning of the line

Shift Home

Select text fromcursor position untilbeginning of the linein Block Mode

Shift Alt Home

Move cursor to theend of the line

End

Select text formcurrent position untilend of the line

Shift End

Select text formcurrent position untilend of the line inBlock Mode

Shift Alt End

Scroll document onepage down

PageDown

Select from currentposition until onepage down

Shift PageDown

Select from currentposition until one

Shift Alt PageDown



page down in BlockMode

Scroll document onepage up

PageUp

Select from currentposition until onepage up

Shift PageUp

Select from currentposition until onepage up in BlockMode

Shift Alt PageUp

Move cursor to thefirst line of currentscreen

Ctrl PageUp

Move cursor to thelast line of currentscreen

Ctrl PageDown


Shift Ctrl PageUp


Shift Ctrl PageDown


Shift Ctrl Alt PageUp


Shift Ctrl Alt PageDown

Move cursor to thebeginning of thedocument

Ctrl Home

Select from currentposition untilbeginning of thedocument

Shift Ctrl Home

Select from currentposition untilbeginning of thedocument in BlockMode

Shift Ctrl Alt Home

Move cursor to theend of the document

Ctrl End



Select from currentposition until end ofthe document

Shift Ctrl End

Select from currentposition until endof the document inBlock Mode

Shift Ctrl Alt End

Move cursor oneword left

Ctrl Left

Select word left Shift Ctrl Left

Select word left inBlock Mode

Shift Ctrl Alt Left

Move cursor oneword right

Ctrl Right

Select word right Shift Ctrl Right

Select word right Shift Ctrl Alt Right

Move cursor to nextparagraph

Ctrl ]

Select text fromcursor to start of nextparagraph

Shift Ctrl ]

Select text fromcursor to start of nextparagraph in BlockMode

Shift Ctrl Alt ]

Move cursor toprevious paragraph

Ctrl [

Select text fromcursor to start ofprevious paragraph

Shift Ctrl [

Select text fromcursor to start ofprevious paragraphin Block Mode

Shift Ctrl Alt [

Scroll document oneline down

Ctrl Down

Scroll document oneline up

Ctrl Up

Show the settingsdialog

Shift Ctrl O

Call Find dialog Ctrl F



Repeat last searchbackward from thecurrent position

Shift Ctrl G

Repeat last searchfrom current position

Ctrl G

Call replace dialog Ctrl H

Forward incrementalsearch in text

Ctrl I

Backwardincremental search intext

Shift Ctrl I

Toggle unnamedbookmark

Ctrl Alt M

Toggle bookmark 0 Ctrl Alt 0










Go to the bookmark 0 Ctrl 0










Go to the specifiedline

Ctrl O

Go to the nextbookmark

Ctrl M



Go to the previousbookmark

Shift Ctrl M

Delete char right fromcursor

Delete

Delete char left fromcursor (Backspace)

BackSpace

Shift BackSpace

Delete word right ofcursor

Ctrl Delete

Delete word left fromcursor

Ctrl BackSpace

Insert tab or indentselection

Tab

Untabify selection Shift Tab

Copy selection Ctrl C

Ctrl Insert

Cut selection Ctrl X

Shift Delete

Paste selection Ctrl V

Shift Insert

Extended pasteselection

Shift Ctrl V

Append to Clipboardcurrent selection

Shift Ctrl Insert

Redo operation Ctrl Y

Undo operation Ctrl Z

Alt BackSpace

Comment selectedlines or current one

Ctrl <

Ctrl <

Uncomment selectedlines or current one

Ctrl >

Shift Ctrl <

Cut current line Shift Ctrl X

Copy current line Shift Ctrl T

Delete current line Shift Ctrl L

Transpose line withprevious

Ctrl Alt T



Duplicate current line Ctrl D

Move selected linesup

Ctrl Alt Up

Move selected linesdown

Ctrl Alt Down

Select wholedocument

Ctrl A

Convert selection tothe lower case

Ctrl L

Convert selection tothe upper case

Ctrl U

Capitalize selection Ctrl J

Convert selection tosentence style

Ctrl T

Swap case of text incurrent selection

Ctrl K

Switch overwritemode (INS)

Insert

Auto complete word Ctrl Space

Show Quick Info forcurrent word

Shift Ctrl Space

Expand typedkeyword fromtemplate

Ctrl Enter

Display Color AutoComplete list

Shift Ctrl C

Provide help forselected or currentword/text

F1

Magnify text size Ctrl Alt Num +

Reduce text size Ctrl Alt Num -

Restore text size tonormal

Ctrl Alt Num /

Collapse allstructures indocument

Shift Ctrl Num -

Open all structures indocument

Shift Ctrl Num +

Expand or Collapsecurrent outliningnode.

Ctrl Num *



Expand currentoutlining node.

Ctrl Num +

Collapse currentoutlining node.

Ctrl Num -

Call Print dialog Ctrl P

Immediately printsdocument

Shift Ctrl P

Call File previewdialog

Ctrl Alt P

Call dialog to chooseanother file name forsaving

Shift Ctrl S

Sep 30, 2013 10:38 AM Ravi Shankar

Nice one Ramesh...

Sep 30, 2013 10:41 AM Yuvaraj S Ramesh T in response to

Hi Ramesh,

Like I have mentioned, all the shortcuts can be seen and programmed from the 'Keyboard'menu in Editor options

Thanks for collecting and adding them separately though...

Sep 30, 2013 11:55 AM Ramesh T Ravi Shankar in response to

Thank You Ravi

Sep 30, 2013 8:35 PM Uday Kumar Kanike

Nice blog. very helpful..!

Oct 1, 2013 11:16 AM Ivan Marconato



Hi,

useful information.

Thanks for sharing

Ivan

Oct 1, 2013 11:34 AM Abyson Joseph

Hi Yuvaraj,

Thanks for sharing the document. Even I came know about .abap only after reading this

post..

Regards,

Abyson Joseph

Oct 1, 2013 1:14 PM Ajay Bose S

Hi Yuvaraj,

Thought of sharing few points in your blog.

In the editor we also have the option of surronding existing line(s) of code by statementssuch as if...else, do...endo, while...endwhile etc.



We can select the line(s) of code and then right click the mouse and then select

Format->Surround by Template

You will see lot of options as I had mentioned like if...else, do...endo, while...endwhile etc.Once you select the command you will see that the lines you have selected have beensurrounded by the selected command.

This becomes useful in case where you have several lines of code already written but onlywant to enable it for a particular condition or something. However you can cut the selectedlines of code and paste it into a notepad and then manually write your if or do condition andthen paste your code back. But the shortcut which I just discussed will make sure that thereare no incorrect nestings of any if... else command or do..enddo command inserted thisway :-)

Similary there a re lot of options in the Format Menu available in mouse right click.

Another point is regarding a programming shortcut rather a keyboard shortcut :-)

Neverthless it is very useful in many scenarios.

Suppose you have several radiobuttons in your selection screen and yo need to check whichof them has been selected by the user and write logic accordingly. A conventional way ofacheiving this is by way of using if else statement like below:

If p_rad1 EQ 'X'.

<do something>



elseif p_rad2 EQ 'X'.

<do something>


<do something>


<do something>

endif.

Now here comes the shortcut,

Instead of writing 'N' number of if else conditions you can write the code like:

CASE 'X'.

WHEN p_rad1.

<do something>

WHEN p_rad2.



<do something>

WHEN p_rad3.

<do something>

WHEN p_rad4.

<do something>

WHEN OTHERS.

ENDCASE.

Most of you mite be aware of this. But those of you who are not aware of this, I am sharing itfor you.

Yuvaraj, I hope it is some value addition to this wonderful blog of yours !!!

Thanks,

Ajay Bose

Oct 1, 2013 1:35 PM Yuvaraj S Ajay Bose S in response to

Thanks for ur contribution,

Yes, Surround by template will be useful at times.

And Case 'X' statement is cool indeed. I wouldn't call it a shortcut, but it is the right way tocode for a radio button. Thanks for sharing..



Oct 2, 2013 6:28 AM Bhuvnesh Kumar Gupta

excellent......indeed very helpful...........

thanks for sharing.

Oct 2, 2013 7:44 PM Prabhu Koneru

Thanks for starting the thread.

Oct 3, 2013 9:49 AM Mriganka Kolay

excellent......

Oct 3, 2013 10:01 AM Dhruvin Mehta

Thanks yuvraj for providing this document.. Very helpfull esp. when u r ina hurry for a

development....

Oct 3, 2013 12:25 PM Preeti Singh

Thanks for the tips . Actully very useful must say !!

Oct 4, 2013 8:06 AM Ramesh Babu Srikakollu

Good Valuable information

Oct 4, 2013 9:31 AM Shivam Maurya

Very handy blog.

Oct 4, 2013 10:55 AM Ansumesh Kumar Samal



Nice Content . Although I practice this to make my coding life easier..and I also forgotmany more short-cuts..but..reading your post is basically revision of my leanings...thanks

Oct 4, 2013 7:21 PM Susanna Kohlmyer

These are great! A lot of them were new to me. Thank you for sharing!

Oct 6, 2013 1:25 PM joseph davis

Thanks for sharing

Oct 7, 2013 7:34 AM gopi krishna macha

Thanks a lot for sharing..

ctrl+U = Selected text in Upper case.

ctrl+T = Text start letter in capital remaining small.

Oct 7, 2013 8:33 AM jeetendra singh

Hey Yuvraj,

Great info.

Thanks for sharing

Oct 7, 2013 2:25 PM Mohammed Jaffer

Thanks for sharing Yuvraj. This will be really useful

Oct 9, 2013 8:45 AM Modadugu Hemanth Kumar



good article!!

Oct 10, 2013 8:05 PM abhishek tevatia

Nice work brother..

Oct 11, 2013 8:25 PM Amitesh Prashar

Ctrl + / is the most helpful.

Now I have customized for Selection Comment (Ctrl + Shift + ,) and Selection Uncomment(Ctrl + Shift + .) and that's is too handy.

Thank you for sharing.

Regards,

Amitesh

Oct 14, 2013 6:13 AM abhijeet kankani

ALT + selection was new to me.

Thanks for sharing nice information.

Oct 14, 2013 3:16 PM Raul Natu

cool

Oct 15, 2013 1:15 PM Govendran Gopi

Very useful Info.



Thanks for sharing.

Oct 15, 2013 1:22 PM Amaranatha Madhaba

Nice post, interesting and very helpful. Thank you so much for posting.

Oct 16, 2013 9:21 AM Srinivas Katreddy Yuvaraj S in response to

Thanks for sharing your knowledge....

Regards,

Srinivas Katreddy

Oct 17, 2013 8:11 AM ramoji paleti

shift+F10 will show the context menu from any screen

Oct 17, 2013 11:12 AM Rekha Nandigama

Thanks for sharing....

Oct 19, 2013 2:46 PM Murillo Casa Grande

Very nice! Thanks for sharing!

Oct 20, 2013 3:57 AM R Sampath Kumar

yuvaraj,

nice info...very useful....

Regards,

Sampath



Oct 20, 2013 5:10 AM Srinu S

Nice effort. Thanks for sharing.

Srinu.

Oct 21, 2013 9:36 AM Satbirsingh Hundal

very informative. Thanks for sharing ...

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Oct 21, 2013 3:41 PM Syambabu Allu

Interesting.

Oct 22, 2013 6:33 AM Siva kumar Devana

very good & most useful document.

Regards.

Siva kumar.

Oct 22, 2013 1:52 PM Chundru Ravindra

Hi Yuvaraj S,

Very useful shortcuts. Till now i knew very few of them. I will try remaining.

Thanks a lot.

http://scn.sap.com/people/yuva.raj2



Ravindra.

Oct 23, 2013 10:20 AM shiva kumar

Thanks alot man. I really loved it .. U made my Job easy

Oct 23, 2013 6:24 PM Maheshkumar gattu

Thanks for this document.

i* is not working for me may i know the reason.

Oct 28, 2013 6:09 AM Raman K Chowthary

Really helpful one. Thanks for sharing yuvaraj

Oct 28, 2013 1:10 PM Mohammed Zaman

Thanks for sharing. Very helpful indeed.

Oct 29, 2013 9:22 AM Jesse Owens

Hi Yuvraj,

Cool Info.

Alt + Selection, Code Templates, Variable name suggestion are very useful

Best Regards

Jesse

Oct 29, 2013 2:52 PM Daniel Baumann



Hi Yurajav,

many thanks for your useful advice.

Best regards,

Daniel

Nov 5, 2013 12:26 PM Rashmith Tula

Hi Yuvaraj S,

I am grateful to you for sharing this. It'll be really very helpful for freshers like me. Keepposting such stuff.

Regards,

Rashmith.

http://scn.sap.com/people/yuvaraj.s