Remove default code snippets in Xcode 6

code-snippets, xcode, xcode6

Solution

Yes you can delete the default snippets. Since snippets are saved in `XML` in a `plist` file at the path:

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Frameworks/IDEKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SystemCodeSnippets.codesnippets

You can create an empty snippets file in `TextEdit` with the following code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">
    <array></array>
</plist>

And save it as `SystemCodeSnippets.codesnippets`. Replace it with the file in the folder named above and there are no default system snippets anymore.

Problem

Anyone use default code snippets in Xcode? There are too many useless code snippets there, such that I don't even want to create my snippets there. So looked for answers on ST, but they did not help much. Is there any improvement so I can remove code snippets in Xcode 6? For further question, can I import or export customised snippets, so I can use them across different computers? Thanks a lot,

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