Snippets Distributor for Xcode 5

Snippets Distributor for Xcode now supports Xcode 5 Developer Preview. All you need to do is to update Distributor for Xcode or install it if you haven't yet. To do that open Distributors window by pressing Cmd+Shift+D (or from menu Window->Distributors) and click "Update" or "Install" respectively near the Xcode in listing.

If you are not familiar with Snippets Distributors yet, it is plugin for Snippets that syncs code snippets from its library with the target app's (app that distributor is written for) library, so, these snippets are available for reuse natively in this app.

Here is a quick demo of the Distributor for Xcode:

Snippets Distributors for JetBrains IDEs

We are happy to announce availability of Snippets Distributors for all JetBrains' IDEs. JetBrains is a great company that makes smart IDEs for many languages and technologies. If you don't use them we encourage you at least to try, you will love it.




Here is the full list of supported IDEs:

• Intellij IDEA Ultimate and Community edition
• AppCode on Mac only
• PyCharm
• WebStorm
• RubyMine
• PhpStorm 
• ReSharper obviously on Windows only. It is supported by the Distributor for Visual Studio.
• and the new Android Studio on Mac and Windows

There is one small thing that makes using Snippets Distributor with all these IDEs (except ReSharper) a bit uncomfortable. If you make any changes in your library or distributor settings, you have to restart IDE in order to reflect these changes.

I've tried to convince guys from JetBrains to implement automatic reloading, but I have no luck. Internally this is not needed for IDE and this is not so small task to implement. Based on our communication, we have two options to improve this:

1. Implement automatic reloading of settings in Intellij IDEA Community Edition and send pull request. If they accept, it it will spread to all the other IDE since they are bases on Intellij IDEA community edition. Here is the repository.
2. Vote for this task. We hope that there will be enough votes to get the attention of responsible team to this task. 

To install any of the available distributors, open Distributors window by pressing Cmd+Shift+D on Mac or Ctrl+Shift+D on Windows, find it in Online Gallery listing and click install. You also need to enable it by selecting Enabled checkbox.

If you enjoyed using distributors so far, I’d be very grateful if you’d help it spread by sharing it with your friends on Twitter or Facebook. Thank you!

Snippets Distributor for Xcode just got better

Today we have a great news for our Xcode users. Recently we published an updated version of distributor for Xcode which now includes a small helper plug-in that reloads code snippets on the go,  restarting Xcode is not required anymore. It just works.

Check out this video.

How do you like it?