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This is built into TextEdit and MLTE in OS X
Authored by: sabi on Feb 19, '02 05:28:15AM

This is one of the genuine improvements in Mac OS X. In older Mac OS
versions, you needed something like Alessandro Levi Montalcini's
Better Edit Keys to enable shift+selection, etc. But now it's
built-in everywhere.

There are two really annoying bugs with Finder renaming I've noticed.

The first one is that when you're moving by holding down an arrow key,
the insertion point disappears. This means you have to guess where
you are in the filename.

The other is that renaming gets 'cancelled', seemingly arbitrarily,
and usually only in list view - you're typing, and the name switches
back to being uneditable.

And this doesn't even consider all the cosmetic glitches that exist in
name drawing, the delay after you press return before the editing box
comes up, the way you can't rename app packages after you copy them
because the Finder thinks they're busy, and much more... Quality, ha!

This stuff contributes to me using one of the 'Finder' replacements'
(SNAX, Coela) most of the time. Amazing that one programmer can do
what Apple failed to - produce reasonably bug-free software for a task
as basic as file management.




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