implement fuzzy autocomplete behavior in the documentation window's search bar

[fuzzyautocomplete]

implement fuzzy autocomplete behavior in the documentation window's search bar

[slazyk]

This is a perfectly valid idea for a separate plugin, so it might indeed be a good idea to give it a shot yourself.

I know that Boris Bügling had a talk about how to extend Xcode which might be a good place to start (together with resources linked there). You can also start by looking at some existing plugins. There's a project template for Xcode plugin. Finally, chendo has blogged how he figured out what to patch for this plugin using dtrace.

It's probably all covered there but just in case some useful tools/methods would be:

• class-dump to get Xcode headers and look for the interesting parts
• lldb/gdb do debug either Xcode itself or your plugin
• Hopper if you'd like to disassemble Xcode to figure something out
• dtrace if you'd like to trace instead
• you will also need to do some method swizzling to change Xcode's behavior

As for fuzzy matching itself, there is a IDEOpenQuicklyPattern in IDEKit that does exactly that.

thanks so much for all that research material, i've added it to my 2Do list as a project, so hopefully i get it done before year's end :P