On 6/1/07, Chuck Esterbrook chuck.esterbrook@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/31/07, Allan Odgaard throw-away-1@macromates.com wrote:
On 31. May 2007, at 19:24, Cliff Pruitt wrote:
[...] I guess that most of the time I open a file, I'm opening a sibling to the file I'm currently editing [...]
[...] If you've already got a project open (re: "which is often in a subdirectory of the project") why not use the file drawer to just click the file?
Or even better: Navigation → Go to File… (⌘T)
I guess ⌘T does the trick. I'll just have to break the habit of also using ⌘O.
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I was wrong. ⌘O still needs improvement. Today I did "mate foo bar" from the command line. Well okay, the first issue is that the two files were put in a file drawer, but not actually opened up. I was expecting to see the contents of at least one of them and preferably have windows or tabs for both.
But getting back to ⌘O, I clicked on "foo" and read through it. I clicked on "bar" and read through it. Then I realized I needed "baz" and hit ⌘O at which point I was looking at some directory totally unrelated to the one that "foo" and "bar" were located in. I had to poke around to get to where "foo" and "bar" were, but after two pokes I said screw it and went back to the command line to type "mate" again.
So my suggestion is that ⌘O set the directory to the directory of the currently edited file. It's more likely to be useful as I've experienced in other applications.
-Chuck