Nick Kaczmarek

UI Bug with Xcode's invisible characters in documentation comments

Feedback number: FB12128126 I like to display invisible characters in my text editors/IDEs because I want to know if the spaces I’m seeing are spaces or tabs. I also like to be able to tell immediately if I’m seeing multiple spaces or not. Here is an example of what that looks like. …

Alligators in Charleston

There are lakes surrounding my apartment and in one of them was an alligator.

Xcode Show modified files only in navigator

Amazing tip from Jesse Squires! …you can filter the files in the sidebar to show only ones that have been modified! It’s a very subtle button in the bottom right corner with a +/- icon. Click that and Xcode will hide all the files you haven’t touched. Xcode filter modified files

How to generate header for swift files in Xcode

I have to look this tweet up every time so I decided to capture it in a blog post. It’s ^⌘↑ and ^⌘↓ to toggle a swift file’s header view, in case 100 people haven’t already mentioned this. Link to tweet from Ben Packard