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Re: How do you use Xcode 3?
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Re: How do you use Xcode 3?


  • Subject: Re: How do you use Xcode 3?
  • From: Jerry <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 17:10:47 +0100


On 3 Oct 2008, at 22:28, Seth Willits wrote:

On Oct 3, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Leo Revzin (Zevrix Solutions) wrote:

- The Code Sense:
I couldn't find a way to make it work like in Xcode 2.x, that is to show the pop-up menu with suggestions every time you start typing a word. For me, the new way Code Sense works in Xcode 3 is unpredictable, unreliable, user-unfriendly and counter-productive.

Until Xcode 3, I have not used Code Sense since v1. I hated it then because it worked wonkily, so I turned it off. I turned it back on with v3 because my fingers were begging me to, and sometimes it seems to work great. It offers suggestions, shows partial suggestions when there's more than one possibility, and generally doesn't seem to get in my way. But other times, it won't offer suggestions at all, or completes an entire word, when there were actually a few possibilities, so I have delete a few characters and press escape to get it back into completion mode. And it'll behave differently at different times when typing the same word.


So I agree. It's unpredictable. I can't just motor along and have it do what I want, or even adapt to what it wants. Instead of I have to wait and see what it's going to do before I can move on.

I agree. It's so unpredictable that I never use it - it's just quicker to type a symbol name than see if code sense will complete it or not. The same goes for Command-double click on a symbol: It takes you to the right place maybe half the time, the rest of the time it takes you somewhere completely random or does nothing. As a random example, I have an enum with about twenty definitions. About half of these are coloured and work with Code Sense, of the rest, some are completely ignored if I click on them and the rest take you somewhere to a line with a similar, name on it. It also seems to behave differently on different machines with the same project and has a habit of crashing Xcode while indexing, so it's best avoided. It's pretty well impossible to file bugs on these though as small projects seems to be fairly well-behaved and the bad projects are always big and top secret.


Jerry

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 >How do you use Xcode 3? (From: "Leo Revzin (Zevrix Solutions)" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: How do you use Xcode 3? (From: Seth Willits <email@hidden>)

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