XCode 8 Comment out broken

Question

On XCode 8 Beta 5 & 6 cannot use the comment out functionality. Seems it is disabled in the context menu and shortcut does not work.

I have submitted this to Apple via bugreport.apple.com and got a response that it has already been reported. I am on Mac OS 10.11.6

Does anyone know how to fix this?

score 41 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 25 '16 at 02:34

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From: https://twitter.com/kolpanic/status/763323546814844928

In Terminal: sudo /usr/libexec/xpccachectl

Reboot.

answered Aug 25 '16 at 02:34

junjie

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Worked great. Well done, good find. – Vlad Aug 25 '16 at 17:40
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Thank you!! Worked. This was driving me nuts. Apple closed my bug report as a dupe. – Ben Stahl Aug 26 '16 at 20:16
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Still actual for 8.1 – Max Potapov Nov 01 '16 at 11:58
sudo: /usr/libexec/xpccachect: command not found – Bagusflyer Nov 04 '16 at 08:18
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Indeed actual for 8.1. Apple, hello ?? – sabiland Nov 04 '16 at 09:10
Doesn't work. Even since I updated from Xcode 7, along with my custom shortcuts, the simple comments shortcut doesn't work. Today updated to Xcode 8.2 (8C38) and still doesn't work. Running El Capitan. – zeeshan Dec 18 '16 at 02:19
I am sad that this is the actual answer, but it worked for me with Xcode 8.2 – Michael Alan Huff Dec 19 '16 at 00:30
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Just worked for me in 8.2.1. Why on earth is this still a bug? – pizzafilms Jan 25 '17 at 23:17
This also works for Xcode 8.2 (8C38). Rebooting does not appear to be required. I cannot be certain, but the occurrence of this issue may be correlated with using Xcode to start and stop an app a large number of times in a relatively short period of time. – Chuck Wolber Feb 08 '17 at 20:42
Command not found on High Sierra, any ideas? – Xernox Oct 16 '17 at 06:09

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 08 '16 at 10:09

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I had this issue with the Xcode 8 GM version. I just moved Xcode 8 into another directory and opened it again. Then it works.

answered Sep 08 '16 at 10:09

MacMark

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The terminal command no helps for me, but this is works! I simply quit the Xcode, rename Xcode's app name, and reopen it, then everything works fine. Awesome, thanks a lot! – Jonny Oct 01 '16 at 07:15

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 13 '16 at 00:15

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You aren't, by some chance, commenting out the second line of a multi-line macro, are you? If so, I already filed a bug about it, and it was broken in Xcode 7, too.

Otherwise, the way you fix it is to

File a bug report at bugreport.apple.com
Roll back to a previous version (or just ignore it and manually comment out the lines)

answered Aug 13 '16 at 00:15

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I am commenting uncommented lines (or at least trying). Seems it is problem with XCode. I will try raise a bug. Thanks – Vlad Aug 16 '16 at 18:29

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 23 '16 at 17:37

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Xcode 8 might not be fully supported by el captain, i couldn't make comment on el captain but now i can make comment when i updated my os to developer beta 7.

answered Aug 23 '16 at 17:37

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 07 '16 at 20:00

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XCode 8 GM is out for download which fixes issue: https://developer.apple.com/download/

answered Sep 07 '16 at 20:00

Vlad

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I am using the full release of XCode 8, and this issue still persists. The accepted answer does solve the problem, but Apple hasn't fixed it. – bindsniper001 Sep 22 '16 at 23:27

XCode 8 Comment out broken

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