Favorite Xcode Shortcuts (an ever-expanding list)

Amitai Blickstein
EyeOhEssBlog
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1 min readNov 17, 2015

This post has been a long time coming. And yet, it has not come. A shortcut here or there does not seem to merit a post entire, but the collective impact of each of these shortcuts has been of such deep and lasting workflow importance that overlooking it is surely a crime.

Solution: start the Journey of 1,000 Steps post, and add to it as new awesomeness comes to my attention.

Jumping Right In:

  • Expand/Collapse all folders/search results in the navigator panel: ⌘ + click the triangle (rather than click).
  • Expand/Collapse all curly-braced code in an editor panel: ⌘ + ⌥ + ⇧ + ← or →
  • Real Estate:
    ⌘+0 toggles the Navigator panel (left)
    ⌘+⌥+0 toggles the Utilities panel (right)
    ⌘+⌥+Y toggles the Console panel (bottom)
  • Editors: ⌘+⌥+↩ / ⌘+↩ to open/close the split-screen assistant editor.

My criteria, so far, include shortcuts that are part of your regular workflow, but are not [readily] visible on drop-down menus. As always, suggestions more than welcome!

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