Re: Xcode next version feature request
Re: Xcode next version feature request
- Subject: Re: Xcode next version feature request
- From: Alexander von Below <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:41:45 +0200
The best thing you can do is to file an enhancement request at http://bugrepot.apple.com
Alex
Am 11.06.2008 um 19:30 schrieb kwiley:
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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