The All-In-One variant of Xcode operates mostly how I would like my IDE to behave – and with the relatively new and nice inline debugger bar, often my code / fix cycles can be completed within the Project view without switching to the Debug view at all. This is handy because I customize my editors just the way I want and I have the code exactly where I want it and have settled nicely into the context provided by the Project view.
I don’t like switching. Switching changes everything around – changes the context – makes me shift out of my state of concentration.
What is annoying is that I have found no way to add the Console output to the Project view. If I remember correctly, this used to be able to shown in a bottom pane in this view at some point in the past. Now, I have to switch to Debug view and look at the console output, then switch back to the Project view to look at code and get back into my groove, or just switch to Debug, find my code in it’s one editor pane, etc. This context switching is inefficient and quite disruptive.
Am I missing some easy configuration to get the console into the Project view?
I guess, in the end, I really don’t ever want to make these huge context switches (between project / debug) at all, which would be the ultimate solution, but at this point, I’m just hoping that I can get the console window in the Project view.
So, the answer is the soon to be released Xcode4 which provides a true all-in-one paradigm.