Here’s a tip for ShoveBox-using developers out there.

I’m a fan of the “Midnight” color scheme in Xcode, finding it easier on the eyes. It looks like this:

Naturally, I eat my own dogfood and use ShoveBox to store pieces of code that I may want to refer back to or use in another project.

Unfortunately, when I drag it into ShoveBox, it looks like this:

Yuck! Xcode seems to copy the foreground color of the text, but not the background.

I’m sure other users have had this problem, so I thought I’d share an easy way to fix it:

1. Open Xcode’s Preferences dialog.
2. Select the “Fonts & Colors” section.
3. Uncheck the “Copy colors and fonts” checkbox.

Now ShoveBox will see the text as plaintext and format it in the font of your choosing (using the default font set in the preferences).

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