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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
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Subject: Re: Renaming Files in System 7
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.170839.19882@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Jun 91 17:08:39 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.160129.6409@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>, jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Steve Jonke - 522) writes:
|> This is both good and bad.  It is bad in that it is different from
|> system 6.xx and before.  It is good because it means fewer accidental
|> name changes and it is sort of makes sense if you think about it -- to
|> change the name you select the name by clicking it.  At any rate, once
|> you get used to it, it isn't any harder to do then in the old system.

Now I'm confused. In very early versions of the system, clicking on the
icon immediately made the text available for editing. I don't have 6.0.x
running any more, but I'm sure this was changed many versions ago because
it was too easy to accidentally change a name. If you started typing
after selecting an icon, nothing happened, so you would say damn and
try again, only this time you would hit the text and it would work.

The new feature I do have doubts about is clicking on an icon then
hitting Enter makes the name editable. This is confusing, because the
Finder keyboard shortcuts otherwise operate like standard file open,
where hitting Enter is equivalent to Open. In my first week of using 7,
I often renamed files (or disks) as a result of this.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu