I think my ability to edit code using only the keyboard might be in the top 5% of developers for speed + accuracy Rate this Objective-C editing in Xcode:

you still edit code by hand?

this is my favorite part of the current moment: determining very quickly if writing out what I want AI to do is faster or slower than just doing it myself

And this is what the top 1% looks like:

very nice

vim users, probably:

does the average developer not know about the ⌘ / ⌥ / Shift shortcuts 😭 i use these all day every day in and out of coding lol

assign a shortcut to "Select Next Occurence" and join the 0.1% club my friend

@stevenhepting I had the best time learning to multicursor-alt-shift-highlight when internationalising an app a few years ago

Could have been faster with a vim macro.

I’m often surprised how many developers aren’t aware of all the text selection and editing chords/key combos. I feel like Apple’s OG manuals about user interfaces forced me to learn all the text editing shortcuts.

Why no multi-cursor selection?

I miss objc

Treeo is thick with it

Woudn't re-indent fix that all? Or does it not collapse lines... I thought it did on occasion. However I feel like you could use multi-cursor, or search and replace with newlines to do that even faster.

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or real

This has to be rage bait?

Ctrl-J a few times in (Neo)Vim and you're done

I think I could do it faster.

reported

10/10 I miss objective-c

What stoneage artistry is this?

Oh, that’s cute. Look at that dad. He knows how to press the home and end buttons. Yeah, I don’t know why he’s still typing either…

Objective-C also improved my editing skills tremendously lol

We have shift-j join in vim world, just saying Xcode ("bundle") has a bunch of very nice tools but the editor itself is a little… :)

I can do this. Is one of the most important skills to have as a developer, and have essentially never been asked about it in one interview. They prefer leetcode and H-1Bs.

I remember watching some @EmacsRocks videos on macros back in the day, doing things like this. Seems like a different era now

You could've selected the white spaces on the first line and select all equal, deleted, assuming they're equal in the lines below, instead of line by line. Do it how many times for the different white space patterns, I reckon it would be much faster and efficient in clicks.

I believe you've not seen top 10% of developers code at all

I do the same. Also lots of emacs shortcuts (the ones that work everywhere in macos). But vim people have you beat severely.

No space after :? heretic

Stone age

Shift + j in vim mode

objective c was propaganda to get developers to buy larger displays in order to fit functions onto a single line

Shift JJ are my initials

this is a 0 / 10 from me fam.

You're already in top .1% of 2% devs who. Still edit code by hand :)

I like Obj-c more than Swift a lot

yessss, a man of culture!

The float notation just unlocked nostalgia deep within me