When I was a system software engineer at Apple in the mid-nineties, I advocated that all of us should do tech support one day per week, so as to obtain greater insight into the needs of our users.
That went over like a lead balloon. On 6/19/15, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 19 Jun 2015, at 00:01, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> On Jun 18, 2015, at 07:08 , Dave <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Have you ever seen a header file with a comment that goes on forever on >>> one line? >>> >>> For example: >>> >>> // This is a very long >>> line of text that is supposed to be telling >>> me something useful but I can’t see the end of it without scrolling >>> horizontally because the developer couldn’t be bother to insert line >>> returns, all I can say is that they must have gigantic screen to be able >>> to make sense of it! >>> >>> Is there a utility I can run that would reformat it so all comment lines >>> are a sensible width? >> >> Virtually all of Apple's files are like this. I don't like turning on wrap >> except in readme files (because I hate it when lines of code are wrapped). > > Me too, if they changed it so the switch was actually in the Window rather > than in preferences it would help. > >> I do wish Xcode would support reformatting comment blocks natively. Filing >> a bug report, you should, too… > > Yes, that would be a really good feature. > > Cheers > Dave > > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/mdcrawford%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected] -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer [email protected] http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
