Xcode pain, syntax highlight broken

Question

I've had problems with Xcode 4 (4.3.1 - 4E1019).

After a few hours maybe less, my code isn't highlighting correctly, it seems Xcode loses all sense of Cocoa and I end up with the example screenshot, I can't jump to methods (by clicking on a method holding down cmd key) - this should work as expected and it doesn't even work for the Cocoa base classes.

The only way I've found to sort this out is to go to Organizer > Project and delete the projects derived data, then Quit and relaunch Xcode, but it's not long before it goes wrong again.

Has anyone else had this problem ? It's really slowing me down. If anyone has any tips, that would be great.

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Look at this it can be helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2138047/xcode-code-loses-syntax-coloring — Justin Boo, May 11 '12 at 17:21
Sometimes cleaning the project, closing and restarting Xcode solves this issue - atleast for me. — Johannes Lumpe, May 11 '12 at 17:24
See my answer http://stackoverflow.com/a/10245076/123632 to a similar question for 100% guaranteed solution to this problem!! — Ashley Mills, May 12 '12 at 12:03

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

Justin Boo pointed me to the best thread and although there are many votes and answers, the user who asked that question seems to have abandoned stack overflow.

I won't attempt to duplicate the best answer other then resume in a paragraph:

Xcode got confused with all my common headers declared in the .pch file, and the setting "Precompile Prefix Header" in Build Settings meant that Xcode was getting into some internal conflicts due to recursive imports of frameworks. So change that setting to NO.

So to keep things tidy, here's a link to the true answer that had me in a headlock: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6033009/662605

Xcode pain, syntax highlight broken

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