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How can one save / restore user created code snippets in Xcode?
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User's code snippets are saved in '~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/CodeSnippets' in the form of xml documents with 'codesnippet' extension.
There are various ways you can store a code snippet, either by keeping it in a GitHub repository or can use a smart code snippet manager, like Codiga's Coding Assistant. Coding Assistant allows you to store and reuse code snippets.
Creating a code snippet is easy. Just select the code that you want to make a snippet and drag it to the code snippet section towards the bottom right of the xcode. A window will appear and there you can rename it and add a description.
Code Snippet Library is a public library that contains an extensive searchable collection of snippets in various programming languages: HTML, Javascript, PHP, Terminal, SQL, WordPress, API.
The user generated code snippets are saved in
~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/CodeSnippets
And you can simply pass them around to save and restore them. I recommend giving them a meaningful name instead of the generated one.
I wrote a short explanation about it here, and also started a collection of useful code snippets that can be shared on github. There are still very little snippets there, so any useful snippets you have to share would be great.
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