Update19

Xcode placeholder trick

A trick I found a few months back but always forget to write down. A lot of things are like that, by the time I have time to write something, I’ve forgotten the things I want to write down.

Anyway, Xcode placeholders.

Xcode’s placeholder system can be used when you need to copy lines and change one little detail, like in this extremely contrived example

array.append("string 1")
array.append("a different string")
array.append("string number 3")
array.append("string 4")

You can type

array.append("<#string#>") and then copy and paste it 4 times, and each time you paste, the <#string#> part will be selected ready for you to enter the new bit.