Open Radar

 
Summary:
There are many good reasons to put curly braces on the next line; enough so that some companies and individuals use it as their coding standard. Most (but not all) of Xcode’s build-in autocompletion snippets leave the brace on the same line. There should be a way to choose, or a way to soft-wrap braces without affecting the source code.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an Xcode project.
2. Edit a C or Objective-C source file.
3. Type “if” (no quotes), wait for the CodeSense popup to appear, and press Return to create an if statement.

Expected Results:
The opening curly brace is on the next line if that is how I or my company prefers to work.

Actual Results:
The opening curly brace is on the same line as the condition.

Version:
Xcode 5.1 (5B130a)

Notes:
I maintain a project on GitHub that patches the built-in snippets file in Xcode: https://github.com/ZevEisenberg/ios-convenience

There are good enough arguments on both sides that it would be nice to have some kind of soft wrap approach, so that if you prefer next-line but your team uses same-line, you can configure Xcode to display one format but save another. I can’t think of any cases where the intent of the braces is ambiguous, so it should at least in theory be possible.

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