Re: Stopping XCode From Inserting Tab Characters
Re: Stopping XCode From Inserting Tab Characters
- Subject: Re: Stopping XCode From Inserting Tab Characters
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:42:32 -0400
On Apr 25, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Ray, Jeffrey R. {Jeff}(DFRC-ME) wrote:
>>> I personally have never understood this (why worry about things you
>>> can't see that don't affect parsing and don't make the file noticeably
>>> bigger?) but apparently you're not alone, as Google's coding style
>>> guidelines also forbid trailing whitespace.
>>
>>
>>
>> This isn't a problem until you are not the only developer working on the
>> file. At which point these unseen characters get changed and at best show
>> up as diffs (that can be ignored) or detected as conflicts by merge
>> tools. Then it becomes a pain.
>>
>>
>
> For me, there is also a psychological component. As a programmer, I have
> to keep many small details and pending connections in my head, as I run a
> sort of mental simulator of my code as I am writing it. Small irritants,
> like chatty coworkers, or having to remember to manually delete dangling
> whitespace, can add up to have a significant annoyance or distraction
> cost. Sure I could try to just ignore that buzzing fly, but instead I'm
> more likely to be annoyed that Apple keeps letting more in.
>
> It's nice that Apple has added the ability to deal with it now.
> Regretfully, I cannot take advantage of it, as I am restricted to Xcode
> 4.2 (our site standard for Macs is 10.6), but I'll get there someday.
>
> -j
Well, it's not all glory and joy in 4.6.1.
Sitting and waiting for a split second while I must watch an unneeded animation that can not be turned off after I invoked an action by pressing a command key has the same effect on me.
The new animation rolling out of lists of text in Mountain Lion when expanding a folder by clicking a disclosure triangle is a constant irritation for me. This occurs in the Finder, in the Xcode Project Navigator, everywhere I can tell where there is a disclosure triangle next to a hierarchical item that will display a list of text.
Back in Snow Leopard, in the Finder's list view, clicking the disclosure triangle on a folder (or selecting it and pressing the right arrow) instantly displayed the contents. Also, in Xcode 4.2 in Snow Leopard, in the Project Navigator, clicking a disclosure triangle instantly displayed all the contents within that item. Now, in Mountain Lion, there is a useless animated rollout of the items that takes a split second - and we can't turn it off.
Same with the sliding out/sliding back of the Xcode Navigator and Utility panels and zooming in and out of the storyboard.
If we are invoking these actions with command keys or with key shortcuts to initiate them as fast as possible, why are we forced to watch them animate for a split second and why can't we set the animation to NO, or the animation duration to 0.0 milliseconds?
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