No need to use the mouse, or to make a symlink to /tmp. Type:
<tab> /tmp <return> <shift-tab> foo.txt <return>
Robin
Ooooh, this is SO helpful! it's been years and years I save my files in whatever dir, and then "mv" in Terminal.app... Thank you, really thank you!
By the way, it reminds us the lack of a complete (and official) documentation of OS X tips & tricks...
I forgot to mention, the dialog that pops up also has (case sensitive) tab completion for files/folders
It will even automatically try to complete if you pause for a few seconds. It's pretty clever.
Yes, it's nice but annoying in that it will only autocomplete the first match (does anyone have a workaround?). For instance, if you are trying to get to '/Library/Application Support' it will match '/ Library/Application Enhancers' first and won't go to the next match with tab or the arrows.
Also note that you can trigger it with Cmd-Shift-G in the dialog.
-- Eric Hsu, Associate Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu erichsu@math.sfsu.edu