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    copied!<p>Is there any way in Xcode to narrow down the completion list displayed by CodeSense as you type when you have several methods that all start with same prefix?</p> <p>For example: Lets assume you have subclassed UITableViewController and wish to implement the method </p> <pre><code>-tableView:numberOfRowsInSection: </code></pre> <p>So, you start to type:</p> <pre><code>-tableView </code></pre> <p>and you get the following CodeSense completion list</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4eved.jpg" alt="Screenshot of CodeSense completion popup for -tableView"></p> <p>That's great, but there are <em>loads</em> of available suggestions and scrolling through this list seems to defeat the point of CodeSense.</p> <p>How do you narrow this list down further?</p> <p>Selecting the second option in the popup list shows the following:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/sI5h7.jpg" alt="Screenshot of CodeSense completion popup when second option selected"></p> <p>To me this implies that if you type:</p> <pre><code>-tableView:n </code></pre> <p>you should get a completion list popup with only the methods that have that prefix. In fact all I get is 'No Completions'.</p> <p>If instead I try to start typing the method signature verbatim:</p> <pre><code>-tableView:( </code></pre> <p>I then get an irrelevant completion list (it just lists types).</p> <p>The above is just an example, I seem to come across this a lot when implementing interface methods.</p> <p>I'm relatively new to Xcode (coming from a Visual Studio background), but I can't seem to find any information about this aspect of CodeSense.</p> <p>Does Codesense support this sort of filtering, or am I just not using it correctly? </p> <p>Thanks.</p>
 

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