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I think he said they save you from having to surface the usual affordances through several settings in multiple preferences menus. Or something.
by sjwright 9y ago
I think he said they save you from having to surface the usual affordances through several settings in multiple preferences menus. Or something.
- mschaef 9y agoWindows has had a mechanism for creating empty documents via the shell since Windows 95. I don't think I've ever found it useful. (Much like the ability to drag and drop text from WordPad to the desktop to make a clipping file.)
- Clane 9y agoComing from Windows all my life to OS X was a bit bumpy. I will say not being able to create a quick text document is so very mildly annoying. But I've learned to use Notes.app in place of my usual purposes for *.txt files unless I'm wanting to move some chunk of text data somewhere quickly outside of the walled garden of my Apple ecosystem.
- Karunamon 9y agoI don't quite understand why you'd ever want to create a new file in this way, and I remember being baffled by it as a child when Win95 came out. Isn't it always going to be faster to open whatever application you want to create your file in (bonus: win+r on Windows, cmd-space on Mac) and just save the new file there? Creating the file first and then invoking the program by opening it with the GUI seems like a pathological workflow.
- ozmodiar 9y agoI think it's to not have to relocate a folder in a Save As dialog. Sometimes I already have a folder open, and just want to create a new file then drag it into my editor because I know the Save As dialog is pointed elsewhere.
- Karunamon 9y agoAha. That makes a bit more sense. For what it's worth, you can just drag the folder into the location bar and get roughly the same effect. If the window's already open, the small folder icon on the top works as well.