Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!agate!shelby!unix!mxmora From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Gripes about System 7.0 Message-ID: <20320@unix.SRI.COM> Date: 23 Jan 91 17:09:34 GMT References: <20283@unix.SRI.COM> Reply-To: mxmora@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora) Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 41 In article francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >Text editors are about the most personality-subject apps around. If >Apple gave us one, lots of us would complain about it. :-) This is true. Apple should at least let us say what editor/wp we want to use to open up a text document. I for one can't stand teach text and its not on my hard disk. >Your word processor really should be easy to find--if your directory >structure makes it hard to find what you need, that's not Apple's >fault. (IMHO and no offense meant. :-) SFGetFile is, I agree, not as >nice as it could be--it would be nice if there were more user control >(e.g., being able to mark a file from the Finder). Boomerang makes it >nicer, but there are a few other things that would be nice. I'm sorry I should have made myself more clear. I'm a consultant here a SRI and I have to go out and fix peoples Mac problems. You would be amazed where people put stuff. I have no problems finding where MY applications are. I have multifinder application and a Fkey that know where my apps are and can launch them for me. Its kind of like _Launch but there is no (practical) limit to the number of applications that it can hold. You just rescan you hard disk whenever you add an application or move one. But I digress... Being a consultant / developer I have to have a lot of applications on my hard disk in case I get a call to help a user. I don't remember where every application is nor do I care to. Its not my job its the Finder's(tm). >| Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| Matt -- ___________________________________________________________ Matthew Mora | my Mac Matt_Mora@QM.SRI.COM SRI International | my SUN mxmora@unix.sri.com ___________________________________________________________