Comments on: Xcode Code Completion

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:18:00 +0000

Nice share. Even though it has been posted some time ago, still it is very useful for me. Thank you, nice work….

By: Beau

Beau — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:10:43 +0000

Really wish code completion would work for protocol properites…

@protocol FooBar
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSString *foo;
@end

id bar = [MyMagicClassMaker createObjectWithProtocol:@protocol(FooBar)]; // Example of a magic class maker: HessianKit

bar.f<<>>

no completions :(

By: David Chu

David Chu — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:44:58 +0000

Another key is Cmd+,

By: Tod

Tod — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:02:30 +0000

On many of the auto-completions (don’t hit opt-esc or F5 just let the auto complete suggestion show up) if you hit RETURN (instead of tab) it jumps you to the next CamelCased identifier and you can refine from there by typing or hit Return again to jump to the next CamelCased identifier. For example, type NSM and it shows NSMachPort. Hit a u and it shows NSMutableSet Hit Return and it jumps to the Word Set, hit A and you get NSMutableArray.

By: other noob

other noob — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:21:48 +0000

I just started my first app with xCode and I realy needed something like intelisence or something. Now I know that it calls “code sense” in Xcode, and I know how to use it. Thanks.

By: noob

noob — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:08:59 +0000

thanks for this post. it’s mind boggling that ‘code sense’ doesn’t appear in the xcode 3.1.2 help index, and noobs like me have to troll the internet to learn that and are the keys they need.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:03:31 +0000

Great post. I rebound these keys in preferences to keys on my home row, I use this so frequently.

I have an article up on my blog: http://www.turkeysheartrhinos.com/?p=8 that builds on these concepts and shows you how to create custom macros for code completion.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:25:26 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to post this.

By: MattjDrake

MattjDrake — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:55:58 +0000

Great post, I’ve been meaning to write something like this up for a while. Thanks!

By: john

john — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:03:41 +0000

Good catch Mark. Thanks, I’ve made the change to the post.