Re: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
Re: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
- Subject: Re: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
- From: Jay Reynolds Freeman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:40:48 -0700
> What it boils down to is that Xcode 3 allowed both single-window
> and multiple-window working styles. Both are valid for different
> people. But Xcode 4 effectively takes away the multiple window
> option, leaving many of us out in the cold. That should be fixed.
I have stayed out of this controversy so far, but that looks like
a good enough summary of what I consider to be the problem that
I felt obliged to chime in with a "me, too" ... My own style is
for lots of small, special-purpose windows. The Xcode 4 window
style does not let me set up individual windows to do the things
I like to do.
For example, I have never liked Apple's Xcode editors -- when I
am developing code, I am usually running EMacs in a terminal shell.
(It isn't just a matter of like or dislike, I program professionally
in other environments than Apple's: EMacs is a widely-available
high-quality programming editor, that I happen to know well enough
that I can get things done very fast when I am using it, so I do.)
That means that I have no use for any Xcode window that features
an editor prominently.
I usually have a small Xcode project window open just so I can
go there and command a build. Sometimes I have several such
windows open so that I can work on more than one project at
the same time. I use Xcode documentation a lot. Occasionally
I look at build results, or open Interface Builder from the Xcode
project window. I also use the information windows about project
and target to set build parameters, and I occasionally use the
organizer. All the rest is pretty much window-dressing for me,
and I don't want it taking up screen real estate. (I have two
27-inch monitors, but even so, between the application I am
building, and editors, and Xcode, and perhaps EMail and Safari
in the background, things are somewhat crowded.) And for what
it is worth, when I need to look at two files side by side it
is rarely a .c++/.m/.mm file and its associated header file.
So I wish Xcode would provide a wide variety of small, special-
purpose windows rather than, or perhaps in addition to, a complex
multipurpose one. If I want the appearance of a multipurpose
window I can always tile my screen with individual windows side
by side. But I can't take apart a multipurpose window when its
configuration does not suit my purposes.
-- Jay Reynolds Freeman
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