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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:12

has anyone out there in my socials ever built an "Open Quickly…" UI?

i've been looking over Xcode's Open Quickly UI and it's… interesting.

and i've been contrasting it to the Spotlight Cmd-Space UI. also interesting.

they look pretty similar. and they behave mostly the same. but there are tons of quirks in both. and not the same.

just curious if anyone's built a canonical version of this sort of UI. otherwise i'm afraid i'm heading down a world of custom UI hurt and i just can't even.

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Written by Greg Titus on 2025-01-09 at 04:38

@isaiah Looks like you've got an answer with some available code, which is great. If you want another UI example to look at: OmniFocus Quick Open is similar to these.

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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:52

@gregtitus i’m pretty curious who did it first.

it seems like BBEdit, OmniFocus, and Xcode have all had it almost as long as I can remember.

it’s definitely a nice little bit of UI for any sort of shoebox/project-based app.

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Written by Cédric Luthi on 2025-01-10 at 23:49

@isaiah @gregtitus If I remember correctly Xcode did not have this feature initially. The Code Pilot plugin was required: https://github.com/macoscope/CodePilot

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Written by Steve on 2025-01-10 at 23:52

@0xced @isaiah @gregtitus I’m not sure of the exact UI, but if you’re only looking for open quickly I think codewarrior had it back in the day.

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