XCode: Adjusting indentation of auto-generated braces?

Answer 1

Read this: XCCodeSenseFormattingOptions

This document describes all the formatting options that auto-complete will use for brace and argument style. Here are mine:

    XCCodeSenseFormattingOptions =     {
    BlockSeparator = "\\n";
    PreMethodDeclSpacing = "";
};

Answer 2

The New Project and New File commands don't really generate any code; they fill in templates.

You'll need to create your own templates (probably based on Apple's) with the changes you want.

In Xcode 3.1, the stock templates are in /Developer/Library/Xcode. You'll put your modified copies in ~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode. Pay attention to the subfolders of those folders.

Answer 3

Hey guys any way to change such pointer declaration:

NSString *aString

to such:

NSString* aString

It would save me a lot of time :)

Answer 4

This is something I would like to see too, I don't like the "new school" way of curly braces on the same line as functions or loop control.

When editing and shuffling lines of code around, it's easier to keep everything relevant in one line. Curly braces should only define scope, they're not part of the function definition or program execution (like in if, for etc..).

Modifying all the templates is not really a good solution, but thanks for the info anyway.

Answer 5

For a more specific answer, if you open up a terminal session and enter
defaults write com.apple.Xcode XCCodeSenseFormattingOptions '{ "BlockSeparator" = "\n" ; }'
it will start new blocks of code on a new line. Note that you will have to restart XCode if you have it opened in order for the new defaults to be read and used.