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May 29

XCode Useful Shortcut keys

Some XCode shortcut keys I found very useful:

Key	Description
Tab	Accept the current completion and jump to after it
Escape, Control-comma, F5	Shows a pop-up list from which you can select from all the available code sense completions
Control-period	to insert the most likely completion
Control-Slash / Shift-Control-Slash	move between place holder tokens
Cmd-/	insert comment line
Ctrl+Left/Right Arrow	Jump to previous/next word
Command-[ and Command-]	indent and unindent selected text
Control-Command Left/Right	fold and unfold the function
Command-Shift-E	expand the editor view to full height of the window

Key	Description
Alt-Command-Up	Switch between .m and .h file
Alt-Command-Left / Alt-Command-Right	Navigate among open files back and forth.
Command-Shift-D	Show the “Open Quickly” dialog for navigating to defined type or function in your project
Control-Option-1	Show list of all project files
Control-Option-2	Show list of members of current file
Control-Option-3	Show list of include files
Control-Option-4	Show list of bookmarks
Control-Option-5	Show list of breakpoints
Control-Shift-R	Show the Console
Control-Alt-Command-R	clear the log
Shift-Command-C	Show the Class browser
Command-=	Jump to the next error in the list of build errors
Command-Shift-F	Display the multiple Find panel
Command-O	Jump to the Project tab
Command-Shift-B	Jump to the Build tab
Command-Shift-Y	Jump to the Debug tab

Double-click on the square brackets or parentheses to select everything between opening and closing brackets

Command-double click on a symbol to see the definition of a symbol

Option-double click on a symbol to see the documentation for that symbol

Thanks to Adeem Basraa for his shortcuts list that helped me find my way around XCode and was a reference for this quick blog.