Today we'll dive back into the world of Xcode Source Editor Extensions (Bite #239). These extensions can not only help us save time and effort, they're also a great way to customize Xcode to our exact needs. Let's dive in! 🏊

First up, Cleaner Closures. We can use CleanClosureXcode from Patrick Balestra to clean up all those unnecessary ('s and )'s from our Swift closure definitions:

Beautiful. No more manually arrow-key-ing around to get rid of those.

Next, let's look at a common feature of many IDEs and text editors: the ability to "jump" the cursor multiple lines up or down. Xcode can't really do that... until now. Thanks to Jump, we're given a few new menu items in our Editor menu to move the cursor up or down by 2 or 5 lines. Neat.

Pro Tip: We can use the Key Bindings tab of Xcode's Preferences window to customize the keyboard shortcuts for each of these movement commands (or any other commands).

Finally, let's check out QuickAdd from Sidney de Koning.

This extension allows us to select some text, and then insert a new function definition into our code, complete with documentation comment, and placeholders we can press tab to jump between.

This allows us to employ a workflow of:

1.) Call a function that doesn't yet exist when writing some code as a sort of "placeholder".
2.) When we're done with that chunk of work, select the name portion of the function call and press a keyboard shortcut to "generate" the function and insert it into our file.
3.) Profit!

Full installation instructions are here.

Know of another neat Source Editor Extension? Send it along!