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Doesn’t it just annoy you that every time you create a new file in Xcode you have to change the company name? I don’t work for __MyCompanyName__, do you? Today I got sick of replacing that block of text and went in search of a solution.

The answer can be found in the Xcode 2.4 Expert Preferences Notes. PBXCustomTemplateMacroDefinitions is a dictionary that allows you to setup macros for use in the default templates. ORGANIZATIONNAME is the macro that defaults to __MyCompanyName__ and we can set that using the terminal.

Open up the terminal (found in Applications/Utilities/) and run the following command to set ORGANIZATIONNAME to whatever is appropriate for you. I’ve used my name. Please note, you should run this all on one line, I’ve only added line breaks to make it fit nicely on the page.

defaults write com.apple.xcode
PBXCustomTemplateMacroDefinitions
'{ ORGANIZATIONNAME = "Gareth Townsend"; }'

Now whenever Xcode creates a new file my name will be placed in the automatic copyright comments. Hooray!

There are a lot of other expert preferences listing in the documentation, so have a look through it and see if there’s something else of interest to you. If you do find something interesting then be sure to let us know in the comments.

This entry was posted Friday, April 6th, 2007 at 1:33 am and is filed under Development Tools. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.