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Sigh. Talk about hiding keyboard shortcuts.

• abritinthebay 10y ago
  Not 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 ago
    It 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 ago
      Everything 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.
      • frandroid 10y ago
        Well someone better figure out a better metaphor soon so we can move files with a couple keyboard combos...