Quieting Xcode Down

But first.

Xcode is a toolset that contains everything its creators could think of to provide a powerful, helpful environment for writing iOS and OS X applications. Often, you barely need to begin a task, and Xcode will offer to finish it for you. It will usually be right. I use these features all the time. I recommend them.

You’re going to turn them all off.

Automatic completions and indentations and code decorations and code fixes are great, once you know what’s going on, but an automaton that snatches your work out of your hands, however helpfully, is straight out of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Better to start with what you want to do; once you’re confident of what that is, then you have the discretion and control to direct ...

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