Under the Bridge

Here’s a handy tip for all you non-C-based-language Xcode users out there; if you wished that you could have helpful comments in your function popup lists like C-based languages do with

#pragma mark Text here

it turns out that, as a matter of fact, that capability is built into the Xcode editor! In C-based languages, any comment line that starts with

// TODO: Text here

// FIXME: Text here

// MARK: Text here

// !!!: Text here

// ???: Text here

will insert the commented text in the popup just as if you’d typed out #pragma mark. Which saves a few keystrokes, whoopie; however, apparently the same trick also works for native comments in Java, Perl, Python, and Ruby! Helpful little convention to adopt, then, we believe we’ll start doing that everywhere.