How can I force Xcode to retain my indentation when I copy and paste?

Question

I find myself wasting so much time dealing with Xcodes auto indentation that I have to ask if there is something I just have wrong in my settings. Basically if I spend time indenting code within a method, and then copy that entire method and paste it, the newly pasted method does not retain any of the white space that I applied to the original.

For example, here is a screenshot where the top method I indented all the objects of an array so they are lined up properly. Then I selected the entire method, copied and pasted, and you can see the method below has the indentation all messed up.

I am using Xcode 4.4.1, here are my settings:

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When you paste use Shift-Option-Command-V instead of Command-V and your formatting will be retained. – Carafe

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Answer 1

Works as intended.

…Objects: and forKeys: should be aligned as they form part of the same method signature.

It might be easier to format your code if you use the new object literal syntax:

- (int)minBrokenPieces {
   NSDictionary *mapping = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjects:@[@"3", @"4", @"4", @"5", @"6", @"7", @"8"]
                                                       forKeys:[Note types]];
  [(NSString *)mapping[self.note.type] integerValue];
}

As for the code itself, it seems a bit dangerous to define these constants in one place and the note types elsewhere. Also, why use strings, when NSNumbers would suffice?

(This code assumes this function is only called from one thread).

- (int)minBrokenPieces {
    static NSDictionary *mappings;
    if (!mappings) {
        mappings = @{
            noteType1  : @3,
            noteType2  : @4,
            noteType3  : @4,
            noteType4  : @5,
            noteType5  : @6,
            noteType6  : @7,
            noteType7  : @8,
        };
    }
    NSAssert(mappings[self.note.type] != nil, @"Used a note type for which there is no minBrokenPieces defined");
    return [mappings[self.note.type] intValue];
}

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