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From: nospam on 15 Jan 2010 19:59 In article <jollyroger-84F44A.15454915012010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > Again, Command-Shift-. is all that is needed to make any standard Mac OS > X file dialog box show hidden files. that must be a new definition of 'any.' i just tried it in textwrangler, safari, preview, textedit and terminal, and all it did was beep. leopard 10.5.8.
From: nospam on 15 Jan 2010 19:59 In article <1jceus8.pqbdpwo26f5jN%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>, David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote: > > Shift-Cmd-C : Computer (top level of file system) > > Shift-Cmd-H: Home > > Shift-Cmd-D: Desktop > > Shift-Cmd-A: Applications > > Shift-Cmd-U: Utilities > > Shift-Cmd-/ (keypad): Go to folder with "/" typed in > > The last one is simply achieved by "/" without modifiers. and cmd-d is sufficient for desktop.
From: Jolly Roger on 15 Jan 2010 20:35 In article <150120101659418495%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <jollyroger-84F44A.15454915012010(a)news.individual.net>, > Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > > Again, Command-Shift-. is all that is needed to make any standard Mac OS > > X file dialog box show hidden files. > > that must be a new definition of 'any.' > > i just tried it in textwrangler, safari, preview, textedit and > terminal, and all it did was beep. leopard 10.5.8. Um, it's a 10.6 feature... Time to upgrade. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: VAXman- on 15 Jan 2010 20:39 In article <jollyroger-0C8C6D.17183215012010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> writes: >In article <00ccb96b$0$17142$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, > JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > >> Jolly Roger wrote: >> >> > You have nothing more constructive on which to to spend your time than >> > trying to make every part of a GUI show elements that are better off not >> > exposed in a GUI? Seriously - use the right tool for the job, man! >> >> I am not a command line zealot. There are tasks which are better done in >> a GUI, and there are tasks which are better done at command line. >> >> Having complementary GUI and command line is best of both worlds. But >> because the GUI is crippled (from system management point of view), you >> end up javing to rely on the command line only. > >You claim to be a system administrator, yet you seem to think reliance >on the command line is a bad thing, for some reason. I don't get that >at all! JF, as I can attest, is quite comfortable at the command line; however, it depends on the system where he is accessing that command line. He is very comfortable, I can assure you, on VMS and the command line there. Now, he is trying to learn unix/OSX command line. >> this could easily be solved by having a single preference page to >> enable/disable display of all files (or a defaults.write command to do >> this). A system manager could then choose to have his ccount set this >> way and not have to resort to using tricks to get the finder to cooperate. > >Most every experienced system manager I know is not put off by the >command line. Quite the contrary, they appreciate that in many ways, >it's much more efficient than graphical user interfaces. Familiarity breathes contentment. Put your OSX experienced system manager in front of a VMS system and let's see how far he goes. JF is used to the command line wherein commands predicate function. For example, if you want to search for a string in a file, the command is SEARCH, not grep. If you wanted to copy a file it's COPY, not cp; RENAME, not mv; DELETE, no rm. I think you could be a little fairer as he tries to understand what seems to be a rather cryptic interface for someone coming from a well organized and concise system. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG http://www.quirkfactory.com/popart/asskey/eqn2.png "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"
From: nospam on 15 Jan 2010 20:43
In article <jollyroger-86A071.19350715012010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > > Again, Command-Shift-. is all that is needed to make any standard Mac OS > > > X file dialog box show hidden files. > > > > that must be a new definition of 'any.' > > > > i just tried it in textwrangler, safari, preview, textedit and > > terminal, and all it did was beep. leopard 10.5.8. > > Um, it's a 10.6 feature... so it's not 'any.' > Time to upgrade. no, it's not time to upgrade. |