Re: mundane xcode user interface questions
Re: mundane xcode user interface questions
- Subject: Re: mundane xcode user interface questions
- From: Bob Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:05:21 -0500
Phil wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:39:47 -0500, Bob Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
>> 1) Can I get xcode to remember the position and shape of windows? I have
>> grown accustomed to my c-code windows opening up 80 columns wide, with .c
>> windows on the left and .h windows on the right. Xcode opens them up
>> something like 120 columns wide and doesn't remember where I put them. I
>> don't see any config setting to change 120 to 80. Any suggestions?
>
> In Xcode's preferences, you can set it to "Save project window states
> when closing" (under General).
> This saves the position and size as well as open documents.
> I don't think there is anything to set a specific column size,
> however, under the Text Editing section, you can set it to show a page
> guide at the column you specify (default: 80).
I believe I did see that option when I was hunting around when I first
encountered this issue a couple months ago. But it's "save PROJECT window
states when closing". That implies that my file has to be part of a project
for the state to be saved. I'm using the xcode editor for any
non-word-processing text file that I open. Many are readme's, output of
text based programs, etc. Not part of any project. My reason for using
xcode for this purpose (as well as for code developement) is that I don't
want to know two text editors.
Seeing the option implemented that way, my guess is that saving it per
project instead of per file is a result of resource fork abandonment in OSX.
Code Warrior saved that info in a file's resource fork.
>> 2) I don't care for wraparound search. I can turn it off in the find panel
>> but this setting is discarded if I quit xcode. Is there not some way I can
>> disable wraparound search pemananently?
>
> I would probably file something like this (settings not being saved) with
> Radar.
What is Radar?
>> 3) The same could be said for single window editing mode, and for opening a
>> file inside the project window when I double click to launch a file from
>> finder. I *always* want files to come up in separate windows. Is there no
>> way to choose this permanently? Note that the one-window/multiple-window
>> editing-mode icon almost works, but seems to randomly get set back to
>> single-window mode every few days. And it doesn't seem to have any effect
>> on the file-is-opened-in-the-project-window feature. The latter feature is
>> of no interest to me, since it defeats my natural tendency to want to
>> compare files side by side.
>
> They did something with this in Xcode 1.5... I don't have the release
> notes on hand, but I remember something about the editing mode in
> there.
Interesting. My machine is only a couple months old, and xcode is 0.3 revs
ahead of me. I'll take a look for the update.
> For me, when I double-click on a file, it opens it up in the project
> window and in a new window... hmm... but I always work in the project
> window, so it's probably just my preferences.
Thanks for the info!
Bob H
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