Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!coolidge From: coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Find (was Re: No cmd-opt-e in system 7?? (answer) Message-ID: <1991Jun19.231124.10890@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 19 Jun 91 23:11:24 GMT References: <13860.28466288@ecs.umass.edu> <13861.284694ab@ecs.umass.edu> <17926@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <53777@apple.Apple.COM> <18001@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Reply-To: coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: roy.cs.uiuc.edu baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) writes: >My own experience (on a IIfx) is that bringing the Control Panels >folder to the front and opening it is faster than running the old >Control Panel DA under System 6. I've found the same, on both a II and a IIfx. >I think the ability to put a folder in the Apple Menu Items folder and >have it brought to the front and opened is marvelous, intuitive, and >consistent; I hate going back to System 6 now. A pox on hierarchical >menus; aliases are a much better solution. Gack. Hierarchical menus forever! (Actually, "the option of hierarchical menus forever" --- it's definitely a user-preference thing). >(Speaking of improvements: the "Find" command in the Finder is >insanely great. It works *exactly* as I've always wanted all these >"Find File" DAs to work. Kudos to the human interface folks at Apple >for making all the right decisions.) One annoyance: I _always_ (99% of the time) want "More Choices". I'd prefer that Find remember the choices setting, or at least of the option of remembering it... --John -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John L. Coolidge Internet:coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP:uiucdcs!coolidge Of course I don't speak for the U of I (or anyone else except myself) Copyright 1991 John L. Coolidge. Copying allowed if (and only if) attributed. You may redistribute this article if and only if your recipients may as well.