Question

I’m looking for a way to map some hot-keys to ‘delete the line that my cursor is on’ in Xcode. I found ‘delete to end of line’ and ‘delete to beginning of line’ in the text key bindings, but I am missing how to completely delete the line no matter what I have selected. TextMate has this functionality mapped to Ctrl+Shift+D and I’d like the same thing if possible. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can set up a system-wide key binding file that will apply to all Cocoa apps.

To do what you want it should like like this:

In your home folder, Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict

{     '^D' = (         'moveToBeginningOfLine:',         'deleteToEndOfLine:',     ); } 

I believe if you only want it to apply to Xcode you can name the file PBKeyBinding.dict instead but I didn’t try that myself. You can read more about this system here and here.