How to stop XCode from inserting spaces between type and *

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Our style guide says (for whatever reason that isn't important to this question) no space between the type and the * in selector definitions.

I.e., this is bad:

- (void)foo:(Foo *)foo {

...and this is good:

- (void)foo:(Foo*)foo {

Is there a way to tell XCode's auto-complete to stop doing the bad thing and do the good thing?

Ideally I'd like an XCode-based solution, but the answer may be that XCode just doesn't let you do this. — i_am_jorf, Jan 10 '12 at 23:46

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

Here is a post about code formatting in XCode: http://blog.carbonfive.com/2009/08/07/code-formatting-in-xcode/

I believe that the sp_before_ptr_star=add line in the config file (https://gist.github.com/841452) is just the opposite to what you want to do, so probably it should be sp_before_ptr_star=remove.

But I guess this is something to be done AFTER the code has been auto-completed.

Check this comment also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1610123/1117650, there is a script you might want to use.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 10 '12 at 21:30

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may not be the best answer but you could opt to use this IDE

AppCode

answered Jan 10 '12 at 21:30

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 16 '12 at 21:49

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The answer is: you can't without using some 3rd party software or script.

answered Mar 16 '12 at 21:49

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How to stop XCode from inserting spaces between type and *

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