Re: Xcode 4.2 key bindings don't save
Re: Xcode 4.2 key bindings don't save
- Subject: Re: Xcode 4.2 key bindings don't save
- From: Robert Martin <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:20:11 -0400
The real issue for me is that a tab in Xcode is conceptually quite different from a tab in Safari - where <Cmd>W makes some kind of sense.
In Safari, each tab is a window into a distinct site - so <Cmd>W does what you think it will do. It 'closes your window' to the site.
But in Xcode, each tab is a user-configured view into a single project - and it is often invoked by its name inside the Behaviors mechanism. Furthermore, the configuration is usually quite different for tabs set up for source files, debugging, nib editing, project settings, and so on. Having a tab 'zapped' is a pain, because you have to waste time setting it up again. It has to be re-configured exactly the way it was, and Xcode cannot do that for you.
But is this a bug, or a feature?
Tog would have a field day with Xcode 4!
On Oct 18, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Mills, Steve wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2011, at 16:29:13, Robert Martin wrote:
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>> Yes. After decades of Pavlovian training, I cannot help pushing <Cmd>W when I want the window to disappear. In Xcode 4.2, this zaps your current tab. I thought it would be simple to just edit the entry in the Key Bindings Prefs and swap the two around - but after changing them, they magically revert. I tried a number of times, but just gave up.
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> It's just plain goofy the way the various Close commands work. They trade key equivs depending on if you have tabs and if you have multiple tabs. That's just weird and nobody expects it to work that way.
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> There's also no way to close a document in the Standard Editor by clicking a simple X in the window somewhere. After having to go slumming in Visual Studio over the years, I almost expected to see a little X in the top-right end of the bar above the document content or even a contextual menu. Nope - you have to travel to the menubar or use command-control-w, which is my global key equiv for launching Safari (the w is for Web:).
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> Steve
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