Remove default code snippets in Xcode 6

Question

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,

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

In Xcode 10 the default snippets are at

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/PlugIns/IDESourceEditor.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SystemCodeSnippets.codesnippets

To remove contents change it to

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!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>