Re: Xcode 3.1 doesn't get an \f
Re: Xcode 3.1 doesn't get an \f
- Subject: Re: Xcode 3.1 doesn't get an \f
- From: "R.L. Grigg" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:48:04 -0700
On Jul 23, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Jason Pruim wrote: On Jul 23, 2008, at 12:22 PM, R.L. Grigg wrote: On Jul 22, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: On Jul 22, 2008, at 19:17, Philip Aker wrote: Anyone else editing files with formfeeds? The symbol popup menu gets stumped by these characters.
Much appreciated if you could duplicate this bug: <radr://6095250>
I put in an enhancement request for something inventive to be done with them. I'd be interested to hear anyone's speculation about what would be useful behavior.
I can think of several inventive things to do with formfeeds, but they're all illegal in 49 states. ;)
Seriously (or mostly seriously), considering the ... what? ... millions? of man-hours programmers have wasted in the 40 or so years since ASCII was invented dealing with device-control characters in text, why on earth would you want to prolong the torture??
When management requires code listings (such as for code walk-throughs) it would be great to insert form-feeds into the code between methods so it will print out having each method beginning on a new page. Ditto for job interviews when you need to bring in sample code to show. I guess Xcode could automatically detect this semantically and pad the output when printing...
Why not write a program to look for all the function name{........} blocks?
and then when you need to print it out, simply drop your xcode project file on that and out of the printer comes your line feed pages?
Because it would have to parse the language, weed out comments, etc. The point is to make the programmers life easier. This is most appropriately an intrinsic Xcode function, no? Xcode already does semantic highlighting, etc, so this would be a no brainer for it.
Russ
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