folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (01/03/90)
If you really like to use the keyboard, you don't have to use the mouse in the Standard File Open dialog. I found a couple of the shortcuts, but I had never seen the complete list, until I stumbled onto it in IM IV. For those who may be interested, here it is: Up Arrow Scroll Up in the file list Down Arrow Scroll Down in the file list CMD-Up Arrow Move Up in the file hierarchy (close current folder) CMD-Down Arrow Open the selected folder Tab Equivalent to pressing the Drive button Return Equivalent to Open or Save button (as appropriate) Enter Same as Return CMD-Shift 1 Ejects a diskette in the internal drive You can jump straight to a file by typing the name. You only need to type enough characters to distinguish the name. The characters need to be typed in quick succession. (I.e. if you type 's', the selection will jump to the first file in the current folder that starts with an "s". If you pause and type 'u', it will jump to the "u"s. But if you type 'su', you will jump to the first file beginning with "su".) This shortcut doesn't work in a Save As dialog, where the file name field receives typed characters. With these shortcuts, you can open files faster than the command-line fans. (I.e. compare UNIX vi's ":e ../../templates/status" to, say, a Mac application "CMD-O CMD-Up CMD-Up te RET st RET", assuming that "te" and "st" are sufficient to uniquely identify "templates" and "status", respectively.) -- Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)
landman@hanami.Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman x61391) (01/10/90)
In article <21578@mimsy.umd.edu> folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes: >With these shortcuts, you can open files faster than the command-line fans. >(I.e. compare UNIX vi's ":e ../../templates/status" to, say, a Mac application >"CMD-O CMD-Up CMD-Up te RET st RET", assuming that "te" and "st" are sufficient >to uniquely identify "templates" and "status", respectively.) Compare vi's ":e ../../te*/st*". That's right, vi does wildcard matching. On the command line you can also use file completion ("set filec" to activate this in csh), where ESCAPE completes the current (partial) filename, and ^D lists all possible completions. With this feature, even 50-character filenames are no problem. Makes it easier to remember what things are... Howard A. Landman landman@eng.sun.com -or- sun!landman