Re: from symbol name to full documentation in Xcode 4
Re: from symbol name to full documentation in Xcode 4
- Subject: Re: from symbol name to full documentation in Xcode 4
- From: Christiaan Hofman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:52:17 +0100
On Mar 18, 2011, at 16:58, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
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> Le 18 mars 2011 à 16:45, Christiaan Hofman a écrit :
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>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 16:40, Matt Neuburg wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>> Have you tried just holding down the most obvious modifiers and moving the mouse?
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>>>>> Could you be more explicit? m.
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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> 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.
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> -- Jean-Daniel
Sorry, you're right, I never used that. It was indeed a very unintuitive action, that you'd never figure out if you didn't know it. That's probably a reason why it was discontinued. Just one modifier key on the other hand is very easy to figure out by accident though.
Christiaan
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