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A Petition: how to represent pathnames
Rob, please, please, please consider this request. I love the site and community surrounding it, but one thing really irks me: it's how you represent file pathnames in your articles:
"navigate to the top-level Library -> Application Support -> Keynote -> Themes folder"Please consider switching over to the simpler typical UNIX path representation from the root of the filesystem: /Library/Application Support/Keynote/ThemesThat way those of us following along on these hints can simply Go in the finder (CMD+shift+G) directly there by pasting in the pathname from the hint. Thanks for listening.
A Petition: how to represent pathnames
I'm with you on this one. It seems a lot easier to type them that way anyway.
A Petition: how to represent pathnames
There are very good reasons for leaving the paths the way they are now. Read the FAQ. http://www.macosxhints.com/cfaq/index.php?qid=39&catid=5
How to represent pathnames
Pursuant to the FAQ you cite, I cannot see how
/Library/Application Support/Keynote/Themesqualifies as a long pathname. In the FAQ on the subject, Rob indicates that he represents a long pathname using the -> delimiters. Lately, however, it seems to have become the de facto standard on the site. I rarely see any path represented in the standard UNIX way anymore (with simple / delimiters). It seems to have simply become his habit of late to use the nonstandard delimiters: another recent example. (I just can't see how /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc qualifies as a "long" pathname.) My plea is for him to return to the standard he set forth in the FAQ -- that only inordinately long pathnames be represented with the nonstandard method ( -> ). Most pathnames in hints could (and should) still be represented with standard delimiters (/).
How to represent pathnames
Okay let's take one of Rob's from above:
How to represent pathnames
I'll try to be a bit better about shorter paths, but I won't use longer path without breaks, because it will force horizontal scrolling for many people -- and when it does, I *always* get emails. |
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