Re: Clear all breakpoints

• Subject: Re: Clear all breakpoints
• From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
• Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:32:57 -0400
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On Oct 18, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Steve Checkoway wrote:

On Oct 18, 2007, at 12:30 AM, Laurence Harris wrote:

On Oct 17, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Steve Checkoway wrote:

Not that this is something I actually care about, but is there no way to write a script that will do it and assign that a command?

To my way of thinking scripts are for performing actions that need to be customized to your project, not to implement generic features a lot of people could use. For the latter it's much less work for one engineer at Apple to implement -- in this case -- a fairly simple command than to have hundreds or thousands of Xcode users writing scripts that all do the exact same thing. To the extent scripts allow us to automate a customized sequence of actions they're a real asset. To the extent they're used to justify not implementing useful features they are a liability.

Personally, I'd rather Xcode be faster than have a single new feature. I shouldn't get beach balls while editing text. This is 2007. People have been editing text for a damn long time now. This should be a solved problem. (And it is. There are a plethora of text editors with syntax highlighting that are far faster.) In the time I'd save from this alone, I'd be more than happy to fly to your place and delete your break points for you...almost.

It just doesn't seem like an operation that would happen often enough to spend time on it though.

It is for some people, especially if they're used to having the command in CodeWarrior. In my experience it's easy to leave breakpoints in my code when I'm debugging. Stop at a breakpoint, step for a while, add another breakpoint without removing the first, and so on. Eventually I track down the problem, but I have a bunch of breakpoints scattered around in my code I want to remove with a single command. Apparently I'm not the only one as evidenced by the existence of this thread. ;-)

I suppose. I think I've opened the breakpoints window fewer than 10 times and probably only once intentionally. Clearly, you work differently than I do in Xcode. I guess when I move on, the next time I'm editing the file, I'll remove the breakpoint, or I'll remove it when it triggers in the next debug session.

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