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From: barmar@Think.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: User interface(was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
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Date: 27 Dec 89 03:37:40 GMT
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In article <7116@shlump.nac.dec.com> long@rainbo.enet.dec.com (Richard C. Long) writes:
>How do you do that?  The selection marquee doesn't work in any non-icon view. 
>I've always had to shift-click each file I want deleted, then drag them all as
>a unit, which is a major pain. I think this is one area where a CLI is better.

Well, it's an area where the DOS/Unix-style CLI is better than the Finder,
but it shouldn't be an indictment of graphical interfaces in general.  Many
Mac applications that display lists of things permit you to drag through
the list in order to select a sequence of contiguous items; maybe someday
the Finder will include this feature.  I can also conceive of more
sophisticated possibilities, such as a "Select All of Type..." menu option
(it would pop up a list of all the file types in the window), or in a
textual view some kind of click on the type description could select all
documents of that type.
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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