[cageface]

AppCode does exactly the kind of source cleanup you describe. It also manages #imports for you, has better code completion, provides a more useful debugger, and gives you refactoring tools almost as good as those available for Java.

You can only do iOS dev on a Mac so I don't understand why you consider that an AppCode negative.

Considering how much my time is worth as an iOS dev the $99 I spent for a personal license is probably the best software purchase I've ever made.

[rogerbinns]

I'm doing development at a startup which means minimal funding and a $200 license. My main development system is running Linux and I do development of client side Android and iOS, plus server side (mostly Python), web, database etc. AppCode only helps for one of those, and would be more valuable to me if it ran on non-Mac platforms even just as a better Objective C editor.

Note that I do do iOS dev on a Mac but I use a combination of emacs on my Linux box using sshfs and command line tools over ssh, plus Xcode when necessary. The product is a library with no user interface so this is actually more productive.

In any event it looks like I should try AppCode. Hopefully it won't have the flaw that stopped me with Sublime Text 2. SL2 didn't detect when a file had been modified outside the editor (eg by vcs or different editor) and happily overwrote the modifications!

I had briefly tried Xcode refactoring before giving up and using search/replace in emacs. One of the curses of multiple languages, client and server etc is that names sometimes end up wrong and need fixing to match local conventions.

[alxndr]

FWIW, RubyMine does notice when a file has been modified on disk. If you have unsaved changes in RubyMine, it pops up an alert that lets you pick which to keep or to diff the two; if you don't have changes it just refreshes and shows the version on disk.

[cageface]

You sound like a busy guy!

In any event, AppCode is very good at picking up external modifications because that's how it integrates with XCode.