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On 04/09/2003 at 10:44 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: >I was so happy when I caught on to "hit return first" I don't care >any more. I don't quite seem to have got that habit. Mind you, I've barely got used to remembering to hold down 'shift'. >You sure? I'm pretty sure it just opened a new window with the default >settings. I'll have to fire up my 7200 and check. You're not thinking >about tapping the triangle to expend the subfolder. Or did you have some >kind of extension that made Finder open folders in the same window? If you create a new folder in the Mac OS Finder, it inherits the view settings of the parent, except for the position, which moves about ten pixels down and to the right. Possibly with the exception of a new folder on the desktop, which would indeed default to the, well, default view. (Trundles over to the test Mac.) Yes, this is the case. If you didn't use the Finder, it wouldn't inherit either. This is a shame, and admittedly inconsistent, but the way to fix it is not to break the Finder but to patch the 'new folder' call from the file dialog so that that also makes windows inherit properly. Bah. >One thing I don't like about Finder is that the toolbar and the "open in >new window" behaviour are mysteriously linked. > >I don't get that. Me neither. I hate that sodding toolbar and I wish it'd remember when I told it to close it and let it NEVER COME BACK. Maybe, you know, it should be in View Options, like all the other stuff that's neither scriptable (sigh) or remembered (sigh). -- :: paul :: historic light coneThere's stuff above here
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