Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!hplabs!nsc!taux01!cyosta From: cyosta@taux01.UUCP (Yossie Silverman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Finder proposal: "Select by..." Message-ID: <953@taux01.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 88 10:21:46 GMT References: <2712@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <5360020@hpccc.HP.COM> <1681@pur-phy> <7743@boring.cwi.nl> Reply-To: taux01!cyosta@nsc.UUCP (Yossie Silverman) Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd. Lines: 23 In article <7743@boring.cwi.nl> jurjen@cwi.nl (Jurjen N.E. Bos) writes: >How about this: >The Open command (Command-O) is currently grayed out if no file is selected. >How about changing this to "Open..." (with the standard open dialog)? >Keyboard addicts just type Command-O followed by the name specification, >and other people won't even notice the difference... >-- > -- Jurjen N.E. Bos (jurjen@cwi.nl) To take it one step further. Holding Shift down while choosing Open from file menu should present you with Open... even if something is already selected. What I would like to see if a full UNIX filename resolution in the SFGetFile dialog, possibly with another button. You should be able to choose an intial set of fils, add files to it (with Shift) etc.. Lets remake finder in our own image... -- Yossie Silverman What did the Caspian sea? National Semiconductor Ltd. (Israel) - Saki UUCP: taux01!yossie@nsc.UUCP NSA LSD FBI KGB PCP CIA MOSAD NUCLEAR MI5 SPY ASSASSINATE SDI -- OOCLAY ITAY