title: Can I use Xcode as a simple text editor?
body: <p>Okay ... This may be a ridiculous question.  (I'm still getting used to Mac.)  I really like the auto fill-in-ahead predictive typing feature of Xcode.</p>
  
  <p>Can I use it to simply edit files laying around different locations on my hard drive?   I do not really want to create a project or anything (unless by <strong>PROJECT</strong> I mean <em>simply loads several files, that are not related to each other, but that I may want to jump back and forth in editing them</em> - I do not want to create a project from files that need to be compiled or anything).</p>
  
  <p>If so, what's the best way to get started?  When you open XCode, it asked a lot of wizard questions to get things set up.  How would I simply get started to edit 5 or so files at a time ... where I might want to switch back and forth between them - and they are not in the same directory?  </p>
  
  <p>All I want to do is simply make changes and save them, make more changes and save again, repeat.   Kind of like holding a lot of shell scripts that communicate with each other.</p>
  
  <p>Okay ... so I know this was a silly question - but Xcode is so intimidating for newbies.   Sometimes, one needs a place to just get started and I haven't found that yet.</p>