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Again, programmer ignorance about using GUIs with the keyboard. "scanning through the list visually will take an incredibly long time" Just type the file name
by cool-RR 15y ago
Again, programmer ignorance about using GUIs with the keyboard.
"scanning through the list visually will take an incredibly long time"
Just type the file name.
"You have to ctrl-click or do something similar (that's definately not keyboard friendly)."
On Windows, you use Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Arrows.
- exDM69 15y agoIf I knew the file name, I could type it and it would be as efficient with a GUI as with a CLI. However, my initial assumption is that I don't know the file name (or it's location in a directory hierarchy) but I have to search for the file based on name, content, size, modification date, etc. A list view in a GUI can help a little but I still prefer find and grep to their GUI alternatives. Thanks for the Ctrl-Space tip. I didn't know that shortcut. Seems to work in Nautilus too.