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The command "format selection" failed!!!!!!

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
objective-c
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the failure in Xcode 11.5 with a 1000+ line Objective-C .m file and a selected code region, using the screenshots as the only provided reference. Start by identifying the formatter command entry point and capture the actual error; done means formatting the selection completes successfully.

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Description

The command "format selection" failed!!!!!!
In Xcode 11.5;
Objective-c .m source code: 1000+ lines;

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Objective-C++
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