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No more quick help in Xcode editor

Quick help has gone away in my Xcode 5 (5.0.2 on OS X 10.8.5):

Instead of the little popup window that's supposed to pop up for the Opt - Click shortcut all that ever shows is the arrow image:

Quick help popup missing

Been like this since the Xcode 5 upgrade. Any ideas how to fix it..?

FWIW: The doc sets are in fact properly installed - 'Opt' + Double-Click brings up the correct documentation as usual. Even removing the doc sets manually and re-downloadig didn't help.

The hovering Quick Help window is still gone..

Solution

  • Quick Help behaves this way if JavaScript is disabled, and certain configurations seem to cause Xcode to write a user default disabling JavaScript following the upgrade. To fix it, delete the user default by running the following command from Terminal, then relaunch Xcode.

    defaults delete com.apple.dt.Xcode WebKitJavaScriptEnabled