macOS How to open 'square brackets' in XCode faster?

[bengimizrahi]

Is there a macro that opens square brackets in XCode?

For example, suppose that my cursor is at <cursor> in the following code:

[foo method]<cursor>;

And after a key shortcut I get the following code:

[[foo method]<cursor>];

Is this possible?

 

[Catfish_Man]

Not that I'm aware of, but that's a good idea

 

[Sayer]

There is an integrated scripting utility that lets you write complex scripts and assign them shortcut key combos in Xcode. Unfortunately I am poolside with my work DELL Craptop so I can't go through the motions.

Basically anyone good with shell scripting should be able to make or adopt an existing shell script to put an open [ at the beginning of the current line and/or selection and put a closing ] at the end of the line.

 

[Eraserhead]

^^ That's not exactly what you want, you want it to put it at the beginning of the current [] block...

 

[Mac Player]

You might want to give a look at TextMate's Objective-C bundle scripts.

 

[bengimizrahi]

Hmm. The scripting cabability XCode provides appears to be too heavy for such a small task. What do you think? We have to write a (say, python) script that takes the whole text file as input, right? And I guess we need two things: 1. Get the current location of the cursor, 2. Change the current location of the cursor.