Xcode next version feature request
Xcode next version feature request
- Subject: Xcode next version feature request
- From: kwiley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:30:09 -0700
I'm not using the 3.1 beta, so if this is in the next version, then
please disregard.
I would love to be able to use Xcode for massive multifile (even
multidirectory) search and replace, the way I used to do with
CodeWarrior, even in totally noncode-related situations, just any
enormous recursive hierarchy of text files. I actually can do this
with Xcode, but it is needlessly tedious. For example, Xcode disables
the multi-file menu item if an Xcode project isn't open and
unminimized. Opening a project and minimizing it to the dock disables
the menu item. Ugh. So, to do multifile or recursive directory
search/replace I have to open a completely unrelated and irrelevant
project and leave it on the screen somewhere, simply to get access to
the multifile search menu item.
Then there follows the obfuscation of actually specifying how a
multifile search should be performed. Instead of switching between
project and directory search and then choosing a directory on the fly,
directly from the search/replace window and with drag/drop support
(ala CodeWarrior), I have to open a separate options window and toggle
the project/directory search there...and additionally add or subtract
directories to a permanent "search-profile" or sorts. This takes
extra time and user interactions (mostly owing to the separate options
window).
I really hope I don't sound like I'm complaining :-) I'm trying to
be polite. What I'm trying to do is describe very explicitly how I
think the interface could be improved...that is...replicate
CodeWarrior's multifile search interface which was disconnected from
the currently open project and did not require setting up a search
profile, but rather let the user specify the search conditions
directly from the search/replace window.
Why do this in Xcode instead of some other program? First, to my
knowledge, CodeWarrior is "dodoing" fast, is there even an Intel
version of it? I basically don't run it anymore. Second, while I
assume there are third-party search/replace utilities I could download
and install (haven't looked), I have Xcode open about 90% of the time
anyway, its basically just always there for one reason or another, and
its in my dock, ready to go. I would just assume use its available
search/replace interface rather than run a separate program to
accomplish what is basically just a direct subset of Xcode's own
search/replace behavior.
Thank you for considering my request.
Cheers!
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Keith Wiley email@hidden http://www.cs.unm.edu/~kwiley
"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."
-- Yoda
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