Eclipse

General Usage

Alt+Shift+A      block select

PHP

The Eclipse PHP environment is called PDT (or Eclipse for PHP Developers). As of this writing, I'm running Eclipse Galileo. I'm using it to edit my PHP rest services.

CDT

The Eclipse C++ environment is called CDT. As of this writing, I'm running Eclipse Ganymede CDT. I use it to edit my mythtv plugin C++ source code via the CDT perspective. I use it to access Oracle databases via SQL Explorer perspective.

Install the CDT version of Eclipse Ganymede.
Select Visual Studio keys
Set up automatic refresh:

Preferences > General > Startup and shutdown > Refresh workspace on startup
Preferences > General > Workspace > Refresh automatically

Install and configure

Install PHP ("PDT"), Java and C++ ("CDT") environments, they each have something worthwhile.

The C++ support in Eclipse is called "CDT" and you can install it by adding this "Work with" repo: [1]