Eclipse navigate to next/previous marked occurrence

Eclipse has the Mark Occurrences feature where it highlights all occurrences of a selected variable/method. Is there a way to navigate to next or previous marked occurrence?


To skip between highlighted occurrences only, try the following:

  • Above the editor Window, select the down arrow next to the next annotation button.

    Button location

  • Adjust the selection so that only "Occurrences" is marked.

Now, when you click on an item to highlight it, you can skip forwards and backwards to other occurrences using Ctrl+(comma) and Ctrl+(period).


After selecting a piece of text:

  • Next occurrence is ctrl+k.

  • Previous occurrence is ctrl+shift+k.


If you are looking to navigate through variables / methods defined in the same class, a quicker way to do this would be to select ( highlight ) the variable / method name you want to navigate to and use Alt + Shift + R to get into the refactoring mode and then use Tab or Shift + Tab.

  • Tab - takes you to the next occurrence

  • Shift + Tab - takes you to the previous occurrence

This way will save you from reaching mere text matches ( including those in comments ), as how Ctrl + K behaves. So you are taken through only "valid" occurrences.


Use Ctrl+> or Ctrl+<

and it's quite easy to remember because > < works as arrow pointing in the direction where you navigate.