e: Storing notes/thoughts about code in Xcode and in the code
e: Storing notes/thoughts about code in Xcode and in the code
- Subject: e: Storing notes/thoughts about code in Xcode and in the code
- From: Cem Karan <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:11:21 -0400
Just create design notes in separate files. If you wish, you can
give them
a uniform suffix, like ".dnote", or incorporate a uniform pattern
in the
name, such as always having the word "notes" before the suffix
(i.e. the
globbing pattern "notes.*").
That is a good idea. Thanks for the tip - I will use it - though I
would really like to have a link between a note and the line of code
it is describing. (Though I always wonder why SmartFolders just use
pattern matching for file names instead of also allowing pattern
matching in the file itself (alas Spotlight)).
Just tried embedding file:// style URIs into my files... it works!
You can also drag and drop files from the finder or from the project
window's list of files onto any file in XCode and get the same
result. If you click on the link, XCode uses the Finder to open the
file, which means that you can have your notes file in whatever
format you want. One thing to note though; although XCode shows the
links of the form file:///Users/ckaran/Desktop/wwwhelp.html#gif, it
doesn't pass the '#' part to Safari. This means you can't have one
huge notes file with different sections referenced by a URI scheme.
If you want something like that, write a bugreport. I'm pretty sure
that supporting the full RFC 3986 URI standard, and letting someone
else write a full note-supporting application would be preferable for
Apple, rather than having to rework XCode so that it can support
notes natively; its probably a heck of a lot less work.
Thanks,
Cem Karan
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