Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!quintus!pds From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: YAWB1.4 Request Summary: reuse old windows Message-ID: <1267@quintus.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 89 23:10:44 GMT References: <89092920434622@masnet.uucp> <4456@wpi.wpi.edu> Reply-To: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 20 In article <4456@wpi.wpi.edu> pawn@wpi.wpi.edu (Kevin Goroway) writes: >In article <89092920434622@masnet.uucp> vic.rocha@canremote.uucp (VIC ROCHA) writes: >>Don't you wish that maybe, at the least, all the `parent' one's would >>close automatically by themselves?? >A better solution would be to iconify the windows Better still, at least for some uses, would be to put the subdirectory in the window you've already got, loosing what is currently in it. Maybe there could be a menu item "open in current window." This is vaguely like the difference between pushd and cd (for csh users): in one case you keep around info about where you were, in the other you don't. Which is not to say that I wouldn't like the ability to iconify windows, too. -- -Peter Schachte pds@quintus.uucp ...!sun!quintus!pds