Re: Can I Speed Up This Folder Browsing Script?
Re: Can I Speed Up This Folder Browsing Script?
- Subject: Re: Can I Speed Up This Folder Browsing Script?
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 01:28:16 +0000
This from Christopher Nebel - dated 9/11/04 10ยท46 pm:
> Relative addressing is your friend:
Well that certainly works a treat. Can you tell me, Chris, what criteria the
Finder uses to determine which folders come 'before' and 'after' the current
folder?
I've tried three methods (yours, mine, and a suggestion from Chris Stone
that involved adding 1 to the index of the current folder to identify the
'next' folder), and all of these move through folders in alphabetical order,
regardless of how the folders are arranged in view options.
In connection with the above, can someone explain to me why the Finder
insists on ordering non-alphanumeric characters - eg, bullets (opt+8) and
diamonds (opt+shift+v) - before numbers and letters, when virtually
everywhere else in OS X (and always in earlier systems) they appear AFTER
0-9 and a-z. This really bugs me. I developed the habit in OS 7/8/9 of
prepending a bullet to folder names when I wanted them to appear below other
folders in icon and list views. Back in the early days of OS X, the way that
the new system cocked up the order of my Finder items made a lastingly
negative impression. And here we are with Tiger just round the corner, and
the Finder still hasn't got it right. Is there a default setting somewhere
in the Unix underpinnings that I can tweak to fix this for myself?
And finally, somewhat OT, I'm amused (in a simple-minded sort of way) by the
differences between OS naming policies at Cupertino and Redmond. While Apple
has distinguished each successive OS X release by naming it after an exotic,
powerful, predatory big cat, Microsoft intends to name it's next generation
OS after a cow. I find this deeply appropriate on many levels.
Nick
pp Mr Tea
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