XCode 3.2: Changing the default “Code Sense” indentation and whitespaces

Question

I\'m working with XCode 3.2 (on \"Snow Leopard\") which (still) has this nice \"Text Macro\" auto-completion feature (eg. if you type if it will expand to if

Answer 1

The only **.xctxtmacro* files on my system were within the XCode.app bundle. After having a quick look a the definitions, I found a completely different way of adapting the formatting of all predefined macros:

You can simply set the XCCodeSenseFormattingOptions user defaults to modify the default newlines and other whitespaces within all macros!

For example the macro "if-else" looks like this by default:

if (<#condition#>) {
    <#statements#>
} else {
    <#statements#>
}

After executing the command

defaults write com.apple.Xcode XCCodeSenseFormattingOptions
-dict PreExpressionsSpacing "" BlockSeparator "\n" PostBlockSeparator "\n"

it looks like this (which I prefer):

if(<#condition#>)
{
    <#statements#>
}
else
{
    <#statements#>
}