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From: lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein)
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Subject: Re: Wanted Finder-feature
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Date: 11 Dec 90 18:10:47 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.220619.13452@portia.Stanford.EDU>, ralphm@elaine22.stanford.edu (Ralph Melton) writes:
> 
> I'd like an item in the Edit menu, just above "Select All", that says
> "Select Pattern."  You'd select this menu item, specify a wild-card pattern
> somehow, and then it would select all the files in the current folder that
> had names matching the pattern.  So in one fell swoop, for instance, you
> could select all the files in a folder called "Backup of *" and drag them
> to the trash at once.

You can do this in System 7, with the new Find command.  It doesn't
provide a full filename pattern facility, but it does handle the most 
common cases.  (You can even do this on an entire volume if you wish.)

> In particular, this ought to be fixed before System 7 comes out with aliases.
> What happens if you Option-Double-Click on an aliased folder, and it closes
> some unexpected folder?

Double click on the title bar is gone in System 7.  Instead if you hold 
down the command key and click, you get a popup menu of the entire path
to the folder.  Selecting any item from the menu opens/brings to the front
that window.

My impression from limited use is that the option modifier (close the current
window) is used in more cases in System 7 than before.  For example, holding
down the option key while double clicking an application also closes the
active window.