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From: alms@cambridge.apple.com (Andrew L. M. Shalit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: finder irritations
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Date: 17 Oct 89 21:39:00 GMT
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In-reply-to: jsp@key.COM's message of 17 Oct 89 20:13:52 GMT

In article <1166@key.COM> jsp@key.COM (James Preston) writes:

   In article <111900082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> ddgg0881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
   >
   >1. You have two folders open and you want to transfer or
   >copy a file from one to the other. You click on the file
   >you want to move and then its window comes to the front
   >which totally obliterates your view of the destination folder.
   >Yuck! it would have been easier to use DOS or UNIX.

   Yes!  YES!  YES!  I am a relatively new (< 6 mos.) Mac user and this is,
   without a doubt, my number one complaint in the "sounds small, but is
   amazingly irritating" category.  (I've wanted to post this complaint myself,
   but was afraid of being laughed at by the old timers. :-)

Sounds like a good use of the ol' command key in the next version of
the finder.  As you know (maybe) holding down the command key when you
click in the title-bar lets you move a window without selecting it.
Shouldn't be too hard to extend this to work for selecting files.
Of course, it would have to be done by the people who write the
finder.

Whoops, I just thought of a problem with this.  Right now the Finder
can assume that only the front window has selected items in it.
That model would have to be changed.  Allowing selected items in
multiple windows would probably be a good thing, though.

  -andrew