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Re: from symbol name to full documentation in Xcode 4
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Re: from symbol name to full documentation in Xcode 4


  • Subject: Re: from symbol name to full documentation in Xcode 4
  • From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:58:33 +0100

Le 18 mars 2011 à 16:45, Christiaan Hofman a écrit :

>
> On Mar 18, 2011, at 16:40, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
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>>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 16:15, Matt Neuburg wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 3:25 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 5:55, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In Xcode 3 I could Command-Option-double-click a term to look it up in the documentation. It was probably one of the most common things I did.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In Xcode 4 I have experimented with various modifier clicks, and none of them takes me beyond the Quick Help dialog. Is this now regarded as unnecessary on the grounds that Quick Help exists? I see that I can get exactly where I want to go by clicking in Quick Help, but what I'm wondering is if there's a way to avoid Quick Help as an intermediary. m.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you tried just holding down the most obvious modifiers and moving the mouse?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Could you be more explicit? m.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>
>>> Have you even tried? Because if you did, that should be obvious. Just hold down Option, move over a symbol, and click the link that appears.
>>>
>>
>> But that just summons the Quick Help dialog. What I'm asking is precisely how to *avoid* this and go *directly* in the *full* documentation window to the API to which the Quick Help is linked, like what Command-Option-double-click used to do. I don't think there's a way. Unless you're seeing a different behaviour? m.
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>
> AFAICS you can't avoid it. Moreover, I see no reason why you'd want to avoid this. Instead of selecting an item in a menu you now have to click a link in a popup.

Look like you never used cmd+opt+double clic in Xcode 3 . Maybe you can check what it does before continuing giving wrong answer on this thread.


-- Jean-Daniel




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