Comments on: Killer Xcode Tips and Tricks – Tips 1 to 10

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:56:00 +0000

This three finger swiping support is lost in Lion, as the operating system grabs it for its own purposes. Two-finger swiping left and right now go through history, and there appears to be no gesture for switching between counterparts (which was totally cool, sad to see it go)

By: Amir Memon

Amir Memon — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:47:24 +0000

Select a rectangular block of code and delete it…. hold alt and click-and-drag

By: m3kw

m3kw — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:10:33 +0000

Bookmark is not longer available for xcode 4! Or did they hide it?

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:32:23 +0000

From the menu, Edit – Insert Text Macro – C – Comment Selection. This will use the comment format /* … */

By: satya

satya — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:59:15 +0000

what is the command for commenting a block of code?

command+/ comments each line of selection.

i like to comment code as

/*
need comment
for this
*/

not

//Not like this
//Not like this

By: Alex C

Alex C — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:38:19 +0000

Option-clicking the Split Window icon is the most awesome find for widescreen users.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:21:28 +0000

Comment out doesn’t work with Xcode 4, apparently. Surely there must be a shortcut for this… but none is listed in help.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:47:33 +0000

Hitting ESC brings up a pop-up window with all possible auto-completion choices. You can hit ESC even with nothing typed, but the menu will be huge. Obviously, this works better once you’ve typed something, and the pop-up menu will show everything that starts with what was typed.

I use this constantly. Great tips on this page, btw!

By: Rog

Rog — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:26:53 +0000

Use CTRL + 1 and CTRL + 2 to open the file list and methods drop downs respectively.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:23:00 +0000

#7 is Command-D, not Control-D

Great tips, thanks!

So what do you think of XCode 4? I’m not liking it much right now….