I know this is a fairly contentious issue amongst programmers, but when developing I like my IDE to position the opening curly bracket underneath the method/interface/control de
After digesting the helpful information from WhirlWind above (thanks), the resulting snippet (just cut and paste into terminal) is:
defaults write com.apple.Xcode XCCodeSenseFormattingOptions -dict BlockSeparator "\\n" PreMethodDeclSpacing ""
Stupid backslash quoting. When typed at the terminal, there should be TWO exactly TWO backslashes in the block separator.