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How about integration into Sherlock/Watson?
Authored by: Glanz on Aug 06, '02 08:09:32AM

I use BBEdit Lite quite often for files like that by using the "Open//hidden" option. This is convenient because you do not have to leave the "show hidden files" option active to search the directories. It's actually faster than the terminal because of the GUI. Any number of text editors will do the job, but I find BBEdit the fastest.



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re: bbedit too slow
Authored by: dm2243 on Aug 06, '02 04:28:50PM

for me, the "open hidden" feature takes forever. much faster is this:

% locate somefile
% bbedit path_to/somefile

assuming one's locate db is up-to-date.



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How about integration into Sherlock/Watson?
Authored by: aranor on Aug 25, '02 08:00:02PM

You can actually open hidden directories in the finder with the Go To Folder command (Cmd-` in MacOS 10.1.x and Cmd-Shift-G in Jaguar). Oh, and you can tab-complete in that editfield as well. Nifty.



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