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From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Finder improvements
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Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 10:32:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 30 10:32:40 1987
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In article <4524@nsc.nsc.com> grenley@nsc.UUCP (George [you mean I can edit my name?] Grenley) writes:
>God, please, NO!!!  As for me personally, if I wanted Unix I'd have bought it.

I'm hoping to nip this in the bud.  I'm not trying to initiate a flame war.
And I'm trying very hard to avoid sounding like a flamer.  But:

The suggestions by Mike Carlton (to whom George was responding) were:
	1. Command-open (Command-double click) closes frontmost window and
	opens subdirectory simultaneously.
	2. Command-close (Command-close box) closes current window and
	opens (or brings frontmost) parent direntory (window).
	3. Some undefined thing pops up parents and children to the
	frontmost (directory) window in a menu.

None of these things are inherently unix-like.  They are mearly conveniences,
like option-close box closing all the windows (in the Finder).  Because
they are command key modified, they fall under the class of things on the
Mac that no user ever HAS to know about.

I have been wishing for
a long time that the pop-up in standard file popped up with the current
directory under the cursor, the ancestors above it, and the children below
it (right now it's just ancestors below it).  This seems easier than
scrolling through a billion dimmed files to find a subdirectory.  The
directories could be left in the file list anyway, for backwards user-interface
compatibility.

>Please, Apple, use Unix as a guide on how NOT to do things.  Unix is the worst
>most offensive piece of trash ever to be foisted on the unsuspecting [non-
>programming] public.

Please, when you say things like this, keep in mind that Unix is also the
best piece or trash ever to be foisted on the suspecting [programming] public.

-Eric


Eric K. Olson		olson@endor.harvard.edu		harvard!endor!olson