Re: What are your tips for navigating the Xcode interface faster?
Re: What are your tips for navigating the Xcode interface faster?
- Subject: Re: What are your tips for navigating the Xcode interface faster?
- From: João Varela <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:10:58 +0100
- Thread-topic: What are your tips for navigating the Xcode interface faster?
I strongly recommend that every Xcode user watches the WWDC 2012 video on this very subject. You can watch it here:
Sign in and then watch the video called "Working efficiently with Xcode". I learned a lot from it.
One of the most underrated features of Xcode was the Open Quickly feature (⇪ +⌘ + O), which I learned to appreciate with this video. In order to navigate more efficiently through the files I am working with at a given moment I turn on the feature "Show only recent files" (the 2nd icon on the bottom left corner of Xcode 4.4.x) and then I search for files or symbols with Open Quickly and then double click on what you are interested and then as if by magic the file and its header will show up in the navigator area if you have the assistant editor on set to show the Counterpart file.
Another feature I love in Xcode 4.4.x is to use is the list of the callers for a given method in the Assistant Editor. It saves me a lot of headaches trying to figure out the repercussions of a change in it throughout the application, as I can quickly check the calling chain. The only thing I would like to change is that when I check the calling chain via the list of callers in the Assistant Editor that the caller would show up in the main editor, and not in the Assistant Editor, as that would allow a faster navigation through the calling chain. Perhaps I will file an enhancement request about it.
J. Varela
In summary, Open Quickly and Assistant Editors
The video is called
As Xcode is a complex program, I always look for tips to navigate through the interface faster and get work done faster.
With that in mind, what are some tips that might be little known or tips that any of you have figured out that may help us get our jobs done faster in Xcode?
Here are some of mine:
- Start memorizing command keys for tasks you do all the time.
- Turn off all GUI animation that doesn't serve to help you do your job faster
- Kill the insipid bouncing text view of the code editor if you use a magic mouse.
defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -bool no
- Turn off automatic termination of apps just in case if I happen to close a project and click away from Xcode.
defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool yes
- Remap Reindent/Realign Code to: ⌃⌘ \
- Map Hide/ShotwToolbar to: ⌃⌘ 0
- For the code editor, learn shortcuts for keyboard selection and for moving through text and controlling the text selection and insertion point.
Insertion point to end of line ⌘ →
Insertion point to start of line ⌘ ←
Move insertion point by word ⌥ and → or ←
To extend or create a selection hold shift (⇧) while using the keys above
- Remap Interface Builder zoom out and zoom in keys to ⌘ - and ⌘ =
- Use Debugger actions to po variable values
- Use Description methods on classes to allow po to actually output the class's values. (Hopefully, 4.4 will make this no longer needed).
Make a printout of all your newly mapped command keys at 24 point and print it out.
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