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: Laurent Daudelin <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:33:43 -0700
On Mar 22, 2011, at 21:40, Jay Reynolds Freeman wrote:
>> 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.
I'm not sure but last time I checked, the xcode-users list was not to collect votes on whether a particular feature in Xcode should be implemented or not. This thread is getting a little annoying as there will always be people that will like the new Xcode 4 and will always be people that will hate the new Xcode 4. I'd be tempted to suggest to those who can't cope because of their long developed habits to stick with Xcode 3.2.6 like I did, but not for the same reasons. Dang, there are a lot of things I hate Apple doing but I'm not going to start complaining daily. This list is about users of Xcode having problems doing something with Xcode. Problems don't include things you used to be able to do with the previous version but can't in the new version. I don't think that's the purpose of this list. You can still create your own list if you want to debate ad nauseam about the merits and the lacking of Xcode 4 or file a bug!
I checked the messages I got from this list an hour ago. I got 8 new messages, all from this thread from people complaining.
Thank you.
-Laurent.
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Laurent Daudelin
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