On Dec 8, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 7/12/2005, at 18:23, Eric Coleman wrote:
i'd like to see an option to sort folders first in the files panel. I am not sure how possible this is with the cocoa controls
Currently not possible in TextMate at least. I'm undecided if it should be allowed in 1.2 -- I preferred it that way myself when I first switched to the Mac (since it was what I was used to), but it seems that “the mac way” is to always alphabetize regardless of type, presumably to allow “type letters to select”, though currently unsupported in the project drawer.
Not so. The Finder has included a "sort by kind" feature in list mode for a long time.
1. Go to Finder. 2. View > as List. 3. Scroll right, until the Kind column comes into view. 4. Click the Kind header.
The column/browser view does not support sorting of any kind, to my everlasting irritation. But that's not a Mac-native limitation, it's a limitation inherited from NeXT.
Therefore:
(a) Finder's "type select" doesn't rely on the order of items in the view. (b) There's nothing unMaclike about sorting options.
:)
Chris