Re: Xcode's Find in Project
Re: Xcode's Find in Project
- Subject: Re: Xcode's Find in Project
- From: Jim Wintermyre <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:10:54 -0800
> I think your complaints are more nits than serious shortcomings. Does
> the Find in Project feature actually get in your way every day? And is
there no acceptable workaround?
When using projects containing multiple sub-projects the find function
is absolutely unusable. It insists on opening a new window containing
each sub-project. Xcode's support for sub-projects in general is
woeful. Try doing a command click to find a symbol that's defined in a
sub-project. You'll be lucky if it ever finds it.
Totally agreed. I filed a bug report for the symbol-in-subproject
issue (radar 4916555). I set up my XCode projects to mirror the CW
setup, which used a lot of subprojects, and now I'm kicking myself
because of the lost productivity time due to subproject issues. If
indexing across sub-projects is working for some people, then it must
depend on the type of project, because it's totally broken for me.
Whether they are called "cross-project references" or subprojects,
XCode should either *fully* support them like CW did, or the
limitations should be clearly documented. I can't think of a
technical reason why it couldn't fully support subprojects a la CW.
All the indexing info is there and I would think the IDE *could* be
changed to use it.
I still have CW versions of all my projects. Thank God. Whenever I
need to do actual work, I'm working in CW. Then I go build and debug
in XCode. These little "nits" that everyone is bringing up add up to
serious productivity killers in XCode for me.
However, my main beef with the Xcode find is the lack of a "Find
All" in a single file, as well as the inability to have each
multi-find file search result in a separate window.
Yeah. How could that be omitted? Maybe they figured "well you can
just do a find all in the project, and then just look at the results
for the one file you actually wanted"?? Pretty much whenever I need
to do some serious searching, I open up CW.
Xcode supports closing all if you Option- click the close button,
but alas the menus don't support the standard Save All and Close All
commands (go figure -- another useful standard Mac behavior not seen
in Xcode).
Thanks, I've been wondering why the hell that wasn't implemented!
Wonder what other potentially helpful features I'm missing because
they're buried... :)
Jim
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