How to enable 'Use symbol and text substitution' inside Xcode

Question

I have a virtual Mac running and want to code a bit in Xcode. My keyboard has characters as { and [ available by using Alt-Gr. In my virtual Mac, using the same keyboard combinations gives me a different output.

• Alt-Gr + 9 produces a capital ç instead of {
• Alt-Gr + ^ produces ô instead of [

I managed to solve this for some programs by using the 'Use symbol and text substitution' option under Language & Text - Text in the system settings. This is working fine in TextEdit, Safari, ..., but not in Xcode. Xcode seems to ignore the symbol and text substitution.

Any ideas how to fix this? Or maybe another workaround? Any help is appreciated, because this issue is really slowing down my programming speed.

Answer 1

Xcode, the text substitutions are not enabled by default. To enable go to Xcode -> Edit -> Format -> Substitutions -> Text Replacement (Enable this)

Hope this helps!

Edit: As Senseful mentioned its better to use Code Snippets. This is a link explaining how to use code snippets Creating Custom Code Snippets and this. Hope it helps!