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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.