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String Editing Plugin for Xcode

Perfect for editing regular expressions, multi line texts, inline HTML and many more use cases. Also provides quick feedback on string length.

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Installation

There are two ways:

  1. Build the Xcode project and restart Xcode. The plugin will automatically be installed in ~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins. First remove the plugin from there (and restart Xcode).

    If you get a "Permission Denied" error while building, please see this issue.

  2. Use Alcatraz, the package manager for Xcode (Attention, you'll need to have MacOS 10.9 installed!)

Keyboard Shortcut

With a little trick you can enable keyboard shortcut for showing the popover. Open System Preferences app, then section Keyboard and add a custom application shortcut for Xcode as in the following image:

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Author

I'm a Mac and iOS developer, follow me on Twitter @holtwick

Credits

This work is derived from the awesome Color Sense plugin of Ole Zorn. Thanks Ole!

License

Copyright (c) 2012-2015, Dirk Holtwick
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