MacOS – Displaced Xcode text on file new project

There is no a way to do this in Xcode. It must be related to the project or workspace. It even does this if you deselect the target.

It sounds like what you need is a text editor and not an IDE like XCode since XCode is built for OS X and iOS development primarily. You may want to try TextWrangle for free, or it's purchasable counter part BBEdit.

If your doing C/C++, Python or PHP work, you may want to try some of the other JetBrains products like AppCode, PyCharm or PHPStorm. There is also Eclipse, with it's many plugins, the heavy favorite amongst many developers.

First, and most importantly: Use version control and push to a remote server at regular intervals. There are multiple free options available, such as BitBucket. You should never have put yourself in this situation.

As the www content in PhoneGap applications is interpreted at run time, you should be able to recover it from a device by syncing it to iTunes, then dragging the application out of iTunes as an ipa file. The ipa file is just a zip file following some particular conventions, so rename it to .zip and decompress it to get the files in the application bundle.

And finally, because it's so important: Use version control and push to a remote server at regular intervals. A programmer without version control is like a painter without overalls or a bicyclist without a helmet.