{"id":159,"date":"2009-04-29T22:33:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2009-04-29T22:33:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:33:25","slug":"xcode-tips-autocomplete-and-lookupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Xcode tips &#8211; autocomplete and lookup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few simple key combinations that help a lot when using Xcode &#8211; I don&#8217;t mean just the emacs key bindings (which are worth a post all on their own), but autocomplete and lookups. \u00c2\u00a0I suffer badly from forgetting these keystrokes when I switch between Xcode and Eclipse (and TextMate and all sorts of other tools).<\/p>\n<p>First the autocomplete key stroke, which everyone knows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tab &#8211; enters the highlighted completion; but then:<\/li>\n<li>Esc &#8211; pops up a selector for all possible completions for the current context.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next the lookups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alt- double click &#8211; looks up the current word in the Documentation window;<\/li>\n<li>Cmd-double click &#8211; looks up the definition (often in a system .h file) for the current word.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Something important I almost forgot: the right click menu inside the Xcode editor brings up a useful list of tools, including all the above options.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all; short and sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few simple key combinations that help a lot when using Xcode &#8211; I don&#8217;t mean just the emacs key bindings (which are worth a post all on their own), but autocomplete and lookups. \u00c2\u00a0I suffer badly from forgetting these keystrokes when I switch between Xcode and Eclipse (and TextMate and all sorts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-for-apples","tag-xcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}