[stcredzero]

I'm not an iOS developer, so I'm not really sure what parts of the insanely-verbose method calls are actually necessary.

It's called "Intention Revealing Names." Names are long to provide the programmer information, so shortening them would have a negative impact.

As an aside, I have Vim rigged up to do autocompletion with Ruby. I'm sure it would work with these Cocoa libraries as well

If someone writes the necessary plumbing.

[286c8cb04bda]

Somebody already did once[1], though it's gotten a bit out-of-date. It needs to be manually revised every time a new SDK comes out, so it's going to keep falling out-of-date.

[1]: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2674