String completion in Xcode?

[samtakoy]

Hi,

Does Xcode have a non-code-aware string completion feature that simply cycles through the available strings with the same starting letters. Like Meta-/ in Emacs?

Thanks!

Sam

[samtakoy]

Hi,

Not available, I gather?

Thanks!

Sam

[MozyMac]

if you mean like:

I declare a string called xyz, then later at a place where i should put a string and i write x, it will complete to xyz.

[samtakoy]

Originally Posted by samtakoy

Hi,

Not available, I gather?

Thanks!

Sam

Still not available?

[BrianSlick]

What are you specifically wanting to do, and how would you define what an "available" string is?

[samtakoy]

Originally Posted by BrianSlick

What are you specifically wanting to do, and how would you define what an "available" string is?

Any string in the project. This feature is available in Eclipse and is pretty well defined.

[BrianSlick]

I'm not familiar with Eclipse, so humor me and be specific. Are you telling me that while typing in file1.m that you will have handy access to a string defined in unrelated file253.m?

And you answered the second question without answering the first. What is it that you are wanting to do?

[samtakoy]

Originally Posted by BrianSlick

I'm not familiar with Eclipse, so humor me and be specific. Are you telling me that while typing in file1.m that you will have handy access to a string defined in unrelated file253.m?

And you answered the second question without answering the first. What is it that you are wanting to do?

The answer to the first question in this post is typically "yes", but some people may prefer greater granularity

What I want is this: If I type "pers" and repeatedly press a special key combo, the IDE cycles through all strings in *.m in the current project that start with "pers". Emacs and Eclipse users usually rely on this feature quite heavily.

[BrianSlick]

Make a Constants.h file. #define some constants there. #import that file everywhere else. Done.