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I love the Miller columns, the preview column and QuickLook. I hate the lack of an address bar and to be able to jump to a terminal directly. For the second iss

by 3rd3 12y ago

I love the Miller columns, the preview column and QuickLook. I hate the lack of an address bar and to be able to jump to a terminal directly. For the second issue I use a shortcut that cds the path of the front-most Finder window using AppleScript. You can have QuickLook in the terminal too by the way: # Quicklook given file ql () { qlmanage -p $* 2>/dev/null } And one tweak I often use is that I have mapped Ctrl-Shift-t to the "Tags..." menu entry which can be done in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts > + > Application=Finder, Menu Title=Tags... You can have something like cd .. in Finder using Cmd-up and cd - is Cmd-[. When you Cmd-click the icon in the window title bar you can see the whole path, which I use a lot too. Finally, I use Cmd-2 and Cmd-3 to switch between column and list view.

charlesism 12y ago
> I hate the lack of an address bar I can get by with these: • Cmd+Shift+G ("Go to Folder") • "View > Show Path Bar"
- dunham 12y ago
  It would be nice if "/" and "~" opened "Go to Folder", like it does in file dialogs.
  - charlesism 12y ago
    I'm not saying Apple made the right choice, but it is legal to include "/" and "~" in OS X filenames. This means that pressing "/" or "~" is already reserved for jumping to a file in Finder, just as pressing "a" would take you to the first file beginning with the letter "a"
    - 0942v8653 12y ago
      Correction: '~' is legal. '/' is actually ':'.
      - charlesism 12y ago
        You are correct in a sense, but not in the context of the Finder. In the Finder, you see '/' instead of ":" and therefore "/" is a character that needs to be reserved for selecting files. But in the context of using the command-line, or (some?/most?) programming libraries, you would be correct.
- eric_h 12y ago
  Just a note - the Go to Folder dialog supports tab completion. Pretty handy.
santaclaus 12y ago
The lack of an out of the box jump to terminal option drives me crazy. I've tried multiple third party solutions but they are always kind of buggy (e.g. switching desktops). I love the new batch rename from Finder that they added in Yosemite, though.
- donatj 12y ago
  You can just drag the path to Terminal though, easy breazy. Here's a video: http://jdon.at/1c1g4 http://jdon.at/1c1g4

by 3rd3 12y ago

charlesism 12y ago

> I hate the lack of an address bar I can get by with these: • Cmd+Shift+G ("Go to Folder") • "View > Show Path Bar"

dunham 12y ago
It would be nice if "/" and "~" opened "Go to Folder", like it does in file dialogs.
- charlesism 12y ago
  I'm not saying Apple made the right choice, but it is legal to include "/" and "~" in OS X filenames. This means that pressing "/" or "~" is already reserved for jumping to a file in Finder, just as pressing "a" would take you to the first file beginning with the letter "a"
  - 0942v8653 12y ago
    Correction: '~' is legal. '/' is actually ':'.
    - charlesism 12y ago
      You are correct in a sense, but not in the context of the Finder. In the Finder, you see '/' instead of ":" and therefore "/" is a character that needs to be reserved for selecting files. But in the context of using the command-line, or (some?/most?) programming libraries, you would be correct.
eric_h 12y ago
Just a note - the Go to Folder dialog supports tab completion. Pretty handy.

santaclaus 12y ago

The lack of an out of the box jump to terminal option drives me crazy. I've tried multiple third party solutions but they are always kind of buggy (e.g. switching desktops). I love the new batch rename from Finder that they added in Yosemite, though.

donatj 12y ago
You can just drag the path to Terminal though, easy breazy. Here's a video: http://jdon.at/1c1g4 http://jdon.at/1c1g4