Re: Apple's Tools Strategy

Subject: Re: Apple's Tools Strategy

From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>

Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:41:25 -0700

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On Oct 28, 2006, at 1:32 PM, David Walters wrote:

* comprehensive selection popups on dot operators

Please be more specific about this, and file a Radar.

* delete-line (this could be a webview thing)

Please file a Radar. This is the second time this week this has been raised, and it hasn't been mentioned ever before in the context of CodeWarrior. (There's a generic request "delete line" to be

separated from "delete to end of line" dating to early 2004, but it's just one of several dozen requests for specific keybindings, most of which we can't accommodate due to the congested keybinding space.

* tighten up the block-commenting (mostly doesn't uncomment for me - though i use spaces not tabs..?)
* mouse-wavable fields, locals, variables, #defines etc.
* watch/popup debug visualisers
* code-specific syntax colouring (different colouring for .c++, .xml, definable for others like php etc)
* tighter help integration (toc keeps disappearing, Menu Manager Reference etc not immediately accessable

Without saying more on these, I encourage people who care about influencing the development of Xcode to pony up for a Select/Premiere ADC membership, get access to development versions of Xcode, read the release notes to see what parts of the code we're actively working on (note: all of the above), and file bugs and enhancement requests while we're in the heat of the development cycle.

* Tip of the Day, so newbies like me find out about option-double-clicking for help early on

* another TOD for the power of the Jump To Definition command

We have gotten strong pushback from people on in-program help like this. I agree that there is a ton of stuff in Xcode that is not very discoverable and only scantily documented, and we could improve peoples' workflow by pushing these at them, but our experience is that people do not want help in their faces, but rather to be easily gotten on demand. Mailing lists, for example, when not saturated with philosophical or advocacy threads, are useful for this kind of thing.

Chris

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