Old habits are indeed going to get in the way of productivity.
It'd probably not go very high on the list, but this feature seems a
reasonable RFE for accessibility support on any OS. It's also additive,
so everyone with the habit of the single char followed by arrow
navigation will still find the
yeah I also use the first 2 characters of a file or folder name to find it on
my mac
and windows 10 does this pretty well also.
From: 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
Sent: Saturday, 4 April 2020 11:51 AM
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Subject: Re: Single-Letter Searching for Filenames
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Date: Friday, April 3, 2020 at 14:20
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That’s pretty much the same thing. 😎
- Brad -
On Apr 3, 2020, at 13:05, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
wrote:
That’s pretty much the same thing. 😎
- Brad -
On Apr 3, 2020, at 13:05, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
wrote:
Hi,
It will also work in Column view. Arrow down to the next item, arrow right to
open a folder, arrow left to close the folder.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Jamf Certified Tech
Apple
Hi,
It will also work in Column view. Arrow down to the next item, arrow right to
open a folder, arrow left to close the folder.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Jamf Certified Tech
Apple Teacher
(with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Apr 3, 2020, at 11:24, Brad Snyder wrote:
This works in list mode, only if items are sorted by name.
- Brad -
On Apr 3, 2020, at 10:07, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
wrote:
Hi,
Instead of hitting the "b" again, just arrow down and you'll get the next item.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Jamf Certified Tech
Apple Teacher
(with Swift Play
Yeah, I get it. My Windows experience is spattered amongst primarily 30+ years
of Mac, so my habits are more conducive to this Apple world I live in :).
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Jamf Certified Tech
Apple Teacher
(with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Apr 3, 2020, at 09:3
Narrow down the search by entering ar least the first two letters
quickly.
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On 4/3/2020 8:38 AM, Dave Carlson wrote:
Tim,
Yes, that does work. But old habits are har
Tim,
Yes, that does work. But old habits are hard to break from 30 years of
MS-Windows.
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Hi,
Instead of hitting the "b" again, just arrow down and you'll get the next item.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Jamf Certified Tech
Apple Teacher
(with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Apr 2, 2020, at 23:57, Brad Snyder wrote:
I'm not aware of any setting that changes this
I'm not aware of any setting that changes this behavior. I have gone all
through the Finder preferences, and have never come across any such setting.
This is just the Apple way of doing things.
- Brad -
On Apr 3, 2020, at 00:44, Dave Carlson wrote:
Here’s something I miss from the MS-Wind
Here’s something I miss from the MS-Windows days. In a list of files in a
folder, I want to find a file starting with the letter “B”. I press the “b” key
and up comes the first file starting with that letter. From old habit, I then
press the “b” key again and realize that I will not jump to th
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