Add user file template support to Xcode

Originator:florian.ebeling
Number:rdar://16715879 Date Originated:2014-04-24
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Xcode Product Version:5.1.1
Classification:UI/Usability Reproducible:n/a
 
Summary:
Xcode is a nice IDE, but the fact that it doesn't support file templates is not cool. There are ways by which files under ~/Library/Developer get picked up as templates, but it is extremely complicated and not documented.

I need for example a certain test framework, and it's boring to add this every single time I create a test file.

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Expected Results:
Simple file templating. This feature doesn't need to support inheritance, which apparently made the existing template mechanism so difficult to use (or even document, which is I guess the reason why it's undocumented).

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Version:
Xcode 5.1.1 on OS X 10.9.2

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