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From: cyosta@taux01.UUCP ( Yossie Silverman )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: finder irritations
Message-ID: <2719@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 89 08:06:25 GMT
References: <111900082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <1166@key.COM>
Reply-To: cyosta@taux01.UUCP ( Yossie Silverman )
Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel
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In article <1166@key.COM> jsp@penguin.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. :-)
.
.Is there any chance that some Mac-guru with some extra time on his hands
.could think up and implement some way to remove this particular thorn 
.from our sides?  Perhaps an init to provide an option that temporarily 
.disables the mandate that the clicked-in folder comes to the top?
.I don't know enough about the MacInternals to know if this is even possible,
.but there must be SOME way to ease this pain.
.
.--James Preston

Someone did.  I don't remember what it is called, but basically, in FINDER,
it allows you to select from a non-front window when the command-tab keys
are held down.  I use it all the time and haven't had ANY problems with it.
I think it is called something like 'Rear Window'.   - Yossie
-- 
Yossie Silverman                                   What did the Caspian sea?
National Semiconductor Ltd. (Israel)
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