{"id":710,"date":"2003-11-06T10:35:54","date_gmt":"2003-11-06T15:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=710"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"xcode_external_editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/06\/xcode_external_editors\/","title":{"rendered":"Xcode External Editors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bumppo.net\/archives\/2003\/11\/index.html#000321\">Nat Irons<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/bumppo.net\/archives\/2003\/11\/index.html#000321\">\nRather than fix this apparent oversight, Xcode makes the situation much worse. I can&rsquo;t even <strong>view<\/strong> a source file in Xcode when an external editor is in use. That&rsquo;s beyond sloppy, and into the realm of the punitive. It suggests that external editors were a check-off item for the Project Builder team, and once the feature was hacked together the subject was closed.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>\nAfter switching to Xcode recently (Project Builder isn&rsquo;t supported on Panther), I finally had to turn off external editing yesterday so that I could step through my code in the debugger. I had almost turned it off earlier, because with external editing on Xcode doesn&rsquo;t show you any context with compiler errors.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nAlso, I can&rsquo;t use Xcode&rsquo;s rather nice SCM window because it insists on showing diffs (a) in the third pane of the project window that I&rsquo;m constantly telling Xcode to hide, or (b) in FileMerge. The option to show them in BBEdit doesn&rsquo;t work.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nAll this pales in comparison to the fact that Xcode often throws away changes that I make to my projects. Not only does it not always detect when I make changes and save the project automatically, but it also doesn&rsquo;t offer a way to save manually. There&rsquo;s no Save Project command in the File menu. What is this, an iApp?\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nat Irons: Rather than fix this apparent oversight, Xcode makes the situation much worse. I can&rsquo;t even view a source file in Xcode when an external editor is in use. That&rsquo;s beyond sloppy, and into the realm of the punitive. It suggests that external editors were a check-off item for the Project Builder team, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}