[comp.sys.mac] Multifinder "set aside" keyboard shortcut

dhare%integral@Sun.COM (Dwight Hare) (02/02/89)

The new multifinder that came with MPW 3.0beta has a neat "set aside" command
in the apple menu which puts away all of the windows for the current program.
I discovered by accident that if you click on another application's window
with the option key down, it sets aside the current application while it
switches.

martin@home.csc.ti.com (Steven Martin) (02/03/89)

In article <87888@sun.uucp> dhare@sun.UUCP (Dwight Hare) writes:
>The new multifinder that came with MPW 3.0beta has a neat "set aside" command
>in the apple menu which puts away all of the windows for the current program.
>I discovered by accident that if you click on another application's window
>with the option key down, it sets aside the current application while it
>switches.

The option key also changes the Set Aside command to a Set Aside
Others command which sets aside everything but the current application.

Suprisingly, though, if you select an open application from the Apple
menu with the option key down, it does not set aside the current
application as it switches.  It seemed to me that that would have made
sense in light of what you just said.

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