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I'm still amazed that the Mac Finder still doesn't let you cut and paste files with Cmd-X, Cmd-V like you can in Windows. That's one thing I miss from Windows.
by bcheung 10y ago
I'm still amazed that the Mac Finder still doesn't let you cut and paste files with Cmd-X, Cmd-V like you can in Windows. That's one thing I miss from Windows. It was so much easier to move files around. Having to have 2 windows open and drag and drop using the mouse is so much more inconvenient than keeping your hand on the keyboard the entire time.
- digi_owl 10y agoMy understanding is that it violates the mental concept of a cut. When you cut in a document, the text gets removed from its original location. A file can't be such removed.
- frandroid 10y agoOr that you can't paste a URL in the filename field of an open-file dialog... That's a really neat Windows feature I was using all the time. Now on OSX I have to right-click on a page/image, save it to my local drive, then go back to the dialog, navigate to the directory where I saved the file, and load that.
- dspig 10y agoYou can drop a file on the OSX open-file dialog to navigate to that location and select the file. That helps a bit.
- abritinthebay 10y agoIt's had that feature for a long time. Copy the file, then "paste" it with the Option key. That performs a move operation. Or, to put in another way: ⌘-C then ⌘-Opt-V
- frandroid 10y agoSigh. Talk about hiding keyboard shortcuts.
- abritinthebay 10y agoNot really... Option is the standard Mac way of modifying a command. In this case the modification is "place these here and remove the originals". It's only "cut" on Windows because it's a leaky abstraction from a document based approach. That makes no sense in a filesystem. It would be extraordinarily strange for Apple to have ported that broken abstraction. The "cut" shortcut works as you'd expect in document-based programs.
- frandroid 10y agoIt might be a standard modifier, but you don't go around every menu pressing and depressing option to see the alternatives. I mean, you can, but to use your metaphor, it's a leaky way of exposing available options. All options should be shown when you click on a menu, without having to press extra keys. "Cut" greys out a file in the Windows File Explorer, showing that it could be cut n' pasted. Cut n' paste is a leaky metaphor for "Move this from here to there" anyway, which is what people want to do 80% of the time when they use this function. People can deal with leaky metaphors that follow the same vector as the original.
- abritinthebay 10y agoEverything you wrote ONLY makes sense because you know how Cut works. It's literally affirming the consequent as applied to UI design and isn't helpful at all.