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Glossary

• browse mode  

  A mode of viewing documentation in the Documentation window that lets you browse the documents in a documentation set by navigating its category hierarchy. See also search mode.



• code completion  

  A text editor feature that helps you to type less by offering completions to the source code you type.



• code focus  

  A text editor feature that highlights a source file’s scope levels using a grayscale.



• code folding  

  A feature that allows you to hide code in the text editor.



• Code Sense  

  A technology used to index source code. The generated indexes are used by code completion, API reference lookup, and refactoring.



• completion list  

  A list of completions based on an entered token.



• documentation feed  

  An RSS-style web feed that Xcode can check periodically to determine when a documentation-set publisher makes available updates to a doc set or releases a new doc set.



• documentation set (doc set)  

  A structured directory containing HTML-based content as well as indexes into that content. You view doc-set content in the Documentation window.



• Documentation window  

  A window that lets you browse and search the developer documentation installed on your computer. See also documentation set.



• file reference  

  A pointer to a file used in the Groups & Files list.



• group  

  An item in the Groups & Files list that encloses a set of project items. See also static group, smart group.



• File History menu  

  A pop-up menu in the navigation bar that lists the files opened in a text editor window.



• focus box  

  A box that code focus uses to identify scopes. See code focus.



• focus center  

  The current scope level, demarcated by the focus box. See code focus.



• focus ribbon  

  A control that lets you survey the the scope of code. It uses a grayscale to identify the scope level of the corresponding code lines. See code focus.



• Function menu  

  A pop-up menu in the navigation bar that lets you navigate a source file.



• Groups & Files list  

  A list in the project window that provides an outline view of a project’s contents.



• gutter  

  The area in the left side of the text editor that displays line numbers, identifies code lines with warnings or errors, and lets you manage breakpoints.



• message bubble  

  A view that displays a project message or breakpoint in the text editor, adjacent to the code line to which the information applies.



• navigation bar  

  A bar at the top of the a text editor that allows you to navigate through a file or its related files, go through the files you’ve opened in that editor, list breakpoints in the current file, and more.



• nib file  

  A file that stores a graph of user interface objects that define your product’s user interface.



• project window  

  A window that displays and organizes a project’s source files, targets, and executables.



• Research Assistant  

  A lightweight window that provides a condensed view of the API reference and links to related documentation for the selected symbol or build setting without taking the focus away from the editor in which the item is located.



• search mode  

  A mode of viewing documentation in the Documentation window that lets you search for documentation using variety of criteria. See also browse mode.



• smart group  

  A group in the Groups & Files list that contains built products, search results, bookmarks, project symbols, as well as source files. These groups are populated automatically. See also static group.



• static group  

  A group in the Groups & Files list that contains source files, such as source code files, header files, implementation files, frameworks, nib files, and other files. These groups are prepopulated through project templates or modified manually. See also smart group.



• status bar  

  A bar in Xcode windows that displays status messages about your project, such as whether a build was successful.



• target  

  A project item that contains the instructions for building a software component or product.



• text macro  

  A text editor shortcut for entering source code.



• token  

  A string containing no space characters.

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