> *No*. I've said it before (right here) and I'll say it again; this is *not* 
> jumping to the documentation, and it is *not* doing what Xcode 3 did. It 
> switches to the documentation window and it enters the double-clicked word 
> into the search field, and it does the search, but it ****doesn't display the 
> actual documentation**** on the double-clicked word.

Indeed, the regressions around this simple piece of functionality are 
disturbing.  I also find that it rarely handles double clicks correctly.  I 
have to triple or quadruple-click much of the time.  It's often faster to just 
bring up the organiser (command-shift-2, obviously) and navigate to the desired 
docs directly, than play some kind of bizarro skill game with my mouse button.

> Once again I put forward my pet wild-and-crazy "dog food" theory that the 
> people at Apple do not actually *use* Xcode for serious work. I know it 
> sounds wild and crazy, but I have two kinds of evidence for this theory:

Occam's razor (and my own nearly four years working on developer tools at 
Apple) will present a different explanation:  Xcode is used exhaustively within 
Apple, but the Xcode team just aren't good at producing a solid product.  I'm 
not sure why that is; all the people I know on the Xcode team are very good 
developers, at least individually.

Someone else pretty well hit the nail on the head earlier when they suggested 
that developer tools just aren't given much top-level interest.  I don't know 
if that can be blamed for the end result though.
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