View .svg files as text in Xcode?

Question

I use xcode for my editing environment. I'm editing a few .svg files on a project, and I need xcode to open the files as text. Rather, it renders the documents as svg. While I appreciate how this helps most of the time (working and view svg's as such) its a hinderance to me right now.

Does anyone know how to tell xcode to treat a .svg file as regular text?

Answer 1

There is a simple way of changing the editor for any file type, particularly SVG in Xcode 5 (I believe this was possible in previous versions too):

1. Right click on the file in your Project Navigator, choose "Show File Inspector"
2. In File Inspector change the Type field to, for example, XML:

You will have to do it for each SVG file though. Seeing the graphical preview of your SVG is still possible via right click in Project Navigator -> Open As -> Preview.