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I've done something *WEIRD* in XCode... suggestions?

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Don Bruder

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Feb 10, 2013, 9:34:27 PM2/10/13
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OK, here's the situation - Running 10.4.11, with XCode 2.5 (As good as
this rig can run - unless you're buying, please save the suggestions
that involve buying a new machine)

The other day, after literally years of no problems at all (at least,
none not of my own making through either ignorance or poor planning) I
apparently did *SOMETHING* wrong. And weird...

After chasing down a problem I'd been having in a project, I selected a
chunk of code inserted specifically for debugging, and cmd-Xed it out of
one of my source files, punched a cmd-Y to build-and-debug, and sat back
for the compile to finish. It was late, and I'd already had a long day,
so it isn't too surprising to me that I nodded off sometime during the
compile. When I jerked awake with the mouse still in my hand, and the
other hand resting on the keyboard typing what turned out to be a
many-screens-long string of "sssssssssssssssssssssssssssss" into a
scratch file I'd had open, I found that the compile was completed, and I
started putting the code through its paces.

At first, all seemed normal. Then I hit a breakpoint. That's when things
got weird...

The "Debugger Console" window, where I dump all my diagnostics, had the
chunk of code I'd chopped out - looking as though I'd pasted the whole
block into it. No biggie, I thought - I must have right-clicked and
jiggled just enough to do a paste - or maybe I somehow hit a paste
command while I was zonked out. Or something...

Except that ever since (A bit over a week ago now - and this includes at
least two reboots, so it's not just something hanging around in RAM),
the first time I hit a breakpoint after starting a new debug session, I
get the same thing - when I look at the Debugger Console window, the
block of code I cut out of that source file last week is being pasted
into the debugger console, and treated as if it were a command I issued.

And it's driving me utterly batshit!

Can anyone point me at places to look to undo whatever it was I did?
I've looked everywhere that seems to make any sense at all, and come up
empty - Whatever it was I did *COULDN'T* have been all that complex,
since I did it while (literally!) asleep - A click, a right-click, some
command/shift/option/control-click combination, or a left-hand-only
keyboard shortcut of some sort.

Among other things, I've wiped the XCode plist out of
~/Library/Preferences, and gone through every pane of preferences XCode
has to offer, looking for anything that makes sense - Whacking the plist
did nothing (Except screw up some of the things I've set up over the
years, but those were easily put right). Nothing I've looked at in prefs
makes any sense as a "suspect" (And, it seems to me, it would have taken
more coordination than I'm ever going to believe I could have exercised
while asleep) and absolutely nothing in any of the documentation I've
looked at has done anything to change the behavior I'm now seeing.

It's *ALMOST* like I've somehow built some sort of debugger macro that
kicks in the first time I hit a breakpoint in a new debugging session.
Except I can't find anything that permits doing such a thing (or UNdoing
it, for that matter!)

I'd be thankful if somebody could point me at a solution to this - it's
driving me bonkers!

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