Quickly Access Adobe Help Docs in Eclipse

I had someone ask me today about an easy way to open up a specific topic in the Adobe help docs when writing code in Eclipse.  The quickest method is to click on or select a class, property or method and press Shift+F2.  This will open up the docs in a new window.

An alternative would be to click the "Show View as a fast view" icon in the lower left hand corner of the Eclipse window and choose "Help".  When the Help view pops up, make sure "Related Topics" is selected.  To hide a fast view, simply click anywhere outside of it.  Now, if you click on or select a class, property or method and then click the Help fast view - it will display a list of help topics that are related to your selection.  This approach may not be as quick or graceful as Shift+F2, but the advantage is that it offers links to related articles in addition to the regular as docs.

See it in action:

Please keep in mind that these techniques will only give you the official Adobe documentation.  Your docs, and 3rd party library docs will not show up in the help view.

If anyone has any other fancy tricks, let us know in the comments.

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