Windows Vista Notepad
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Paul Watson wrote:
Microsoft should copy the column feature from Mac OS X Finder. That works wonderfully well.
I could swear that column feature was from NextStep. Sad to say, but if MS hasn't copied it yet, i doubt they're gonna... (for those who haven't seen it, it's nothing like the List view in Explorer. For starters, it's useful.)
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Shog9 wrote:
I could swear that column feature was from NextStep
Possibly, seeing as a Mac OS was made from Next. They aren't afraid to copy.
Shog9 wrote:
(for those who haven't seen it, it's nothing like the List view in Explorer. For starters, it's useful.)
:laugh: Yeah. Just what is the list option for? I used thumbnail, icons and detailed plenty but never list.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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I hope not. Text editors don't need em.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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Shog9 wrote:
I could swear that column feature was from NextStep
Possibly, seeing as a Mac OS was made from Next. They aren't afraid to copy.
Shog9 wrote:
(for those who haven't seen it, it's nothing like the List view in Explorer. For starters, it's useful.)
:laugh: Yeah. Just what is the list option for? I used thumbnail, icons and detailed plenty but never list.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
Paul Watson wrote:
Just what is the list option for?
Near as i can tell, cramming lots and lots of files into the small browser of the standard Open dialog. Of course, that probably worked a lot better when most filenames were 8.3. I mostly just use Details. And curse at Windows for being so slow across the WAN.
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This is totally an "OS/2 had that years ago" post... ;P
David Wulff wrote:
Microsoft have finally updated Notepad so double clicking to select is aware of non-whitespace word breaks.
Wow. That's entirely worth tracking down printer and scanner drivers. :rolleyes: I like the sound system changes. It actually ships with drivers for my old Creative Extigy box, and sounds great without any tweaking. If you've never had to install Creative drivers, you cannot understand how great this is. And the simplified volume controls are great. If my printer worked, i would switch today. But yeah, OS/2 still shipped with a better text editor. Twelve years ago. Golf clap for MS, everybody...
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Shog9 wrote:
But yeah, OS/2 still shipped with a better text editor.
And you know the difference between Elvis and OS/2...?
Kevin
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Shog9 wrote:
But yeah, OS/2 still shipped with a better text editor.
And you know the difference between Elvis and OS/2...?
Kevin
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
And you know the difference between Elvis and OS/2...?
Well, let's see...
- Both of them were born and died before Vista ever shipped, so that's not it.
- Both of them suffered from poor management, so that's not it.
- Ah, i've got it! People still remember Elvis... ;)
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Kevin McFarlane wrote:
And you know the difference between Elvis and OS/2...?
Well, let's see...
- Both of them were born and died before Vista ever shipped, so that's not it.
- Both of them suffered from poor management, so that's not it.
- Ah, i've got it! People still remember Elvis... ;)
---- I just want you to be happy; That's my only little wish...
Yes or, alternatively: "OS/2 is really dead." :)
Kevin
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Shog9 wrote:
I could swear that column feature was from NextStep
Possibly, seeing as a Mac OS was made from Next. They aren't afraid to copy.
Shog9 wrote:
(for those who haven't seen it, it's nothing like the List view in Explorer. For starters, it's useful.)
:laugh: Yeah. Just what is the list option for? I used thumbnail, icons and detailed plenty but never list.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
List view is useful for large directories of files - it fits the absolute maximum number on screen at once. I have used it as my default view for the last 7 or 8 years now. But then, you already knew I would be saying that. :)
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This is totally an "OS/2 had that years ago" post... ;P
David Wulff wrote:
Microsoft have finally updated Notepad so double clicking to select is aware of non-whitespace word breaks.
Wow. That's entirely worth tracking down printer and scanner drivers. :rolleyes: I like the sound system changes. It actually ships with drivers for my old Creative Extigy box, and sounds great without any tweaking. If you've never had to install Creative drivers, you cannot understand how great this is. And the simplified volume controls are great. If my printer worked, i would switch today. But yeah, OS/2 still shipped with a better text editor. Twelve years ago. Golf clap for MS, everybody...
---- I just want you to be happy; That's my only little wish...
But did OS/2 have Purble Palace[^]? (If you buy the Ultimate edition you get an extra game type too.)
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Nope.
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List view is useful for large directories of files - it fits the absolute maximum number on screen at once. I have used it as my default view for the last 7 or 8 years now. But then, you already knew I would be saying that. :)
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Sleep deprivation does not cause physical harm. Humans can only survive about a week without sleep before flat out dying. - Espeir Logic Prism.How is it useful though to list all those files without any info except their name and an icon?
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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How is it useful though to list all those files without any info except their name and an icon?
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
Why do you go in to a directory? You go in to find a file or group of files. The more you can see at once, the less time it will take to find the one/s you want. Files are identified by their name, what use is other information 99% of the time? I was not aware that the list view was at all unpopular, especially amojng devs. All of the devs I work with use list view 100% the time like myself. The only exception is when I actually need to see a modified date and sorting alone isn't enough, in which case I'll swap to detailed view temporarily. It is also significantly faster to use the list and/or detailed view than using the icon or tile views, particularly when you are navigating directories containing many hundreds of file or over a network.
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But did OS/2 have Purble Palace[^]? (If you buy the Ultimate edition you get an extra game type too.)
Ðavid Wulff What kind of music to programmers listen to?
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Why do you go in to a directory? You go in to find a file or group of files. The more you can see at once, the less time it will take to find the one/s you want. Files are identified by their name, what use is other information 99% of the time? I was not aware that the list view was at all unpopular, especially amojng devs. All of the devs I work with use list view 100% the time like myself. The only exception is when I actually need to see a modified date and sorting alone isn't enough, in which case I'll swap to detailed view temporarily. It is also significantly faster to use the list and/or detailed view than using the icon or tile views, particularly when you are navigating directories containing many hundreds of file or over a network.
Ðavid Wulff What kind of music to programmers listen to?
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Sleep deprivation does not cause physical harm. Humans can only survive about a week without sleep before flat out dying. - Espeir Logic Prism.I don't go into directories just for large groups of files. I'd say it is a 50/50 split between big groups and individual files. I find it faster to scan a single column list too, rather than side by side columns. Dates are important as I often know when I edited a file. It is easy to scan date lists for the right day or time block and then start reading filenames. Size is also important. I found my vista download in my downloads directory by going for size. I guess it is just different ways of finding things. Good thing they left the List view in then, for odd types like you ;) (never met a dev who liked List view, till you.)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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List view is useful for large directories of files - it fits the absolute maximum number on screen at once. I have used it as my default view for the last 7 or 8 years now. But then, you already knew I would be saying that. :)
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List view is useful for large directories of files - it fits the absolute maximum number on screen at once.
Last i checked, it makes every column as wide as would be necessary for the longest filename in the directory. This wastes a lot of space. So yeah, it shows more files than the other view options, but it could do more. And, you don't get the date and size. Also, i hate horizontal scrolling.
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David Wulff wrote:
List view is useful for large directories of files - it fits the absolute maximum number on screen at once.
Last i checked, it makes every column as wide as would be necessary for the longest filename in the directory. This wastes a lot of space. So yeah, it shows more files than the other view options, but it could do more. And, you don't get the date and size. Also, i hate horizontal scrolling.
If you have the list view set as default, all columns will be the same size regardless of the file name length when you first enter a directory. Only if you then hit F5 will it resize the columns (and even then, it has limits).
Shog9 wrote:
Also, i hate horizontal scrolling
That is what mouse wheels are for. Just scroll down, and it will move down the list, even if that means moving the window to the left.
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If you have the list view set as default, all columns will be the same size regardless of the file name length when you first enter a directory. Only if you then hit F5 will it resize the columns (and even then, it has limits).
Shog9 wrote:
Also, i hate horizontal scrolling
That is what mouse wheels are for. Just scroll down, and it will move down the list, even if that means moving the window to the left.
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If you have the list view set as default, all columns will be the same size regardless of the file name length when you first enter a directory.
I know they're the same size. That was my point - that all columns are the same width, regardless of whether that much width is actually needed to display the files in that column.
David Wulff wrote:
That is what mouse wheels are for. Just scroll down, and it will move down the list, even if that means moving the window to the left.
Yeah, i guess that gripe was a big vague. It's not that i have trouble scrolling when i need to, it's that i dislike it scrolling when i don't. I can't begin to count the number of times i've selected the wrong file in a List mode listview by Ctrl+clicking a partially-obscured name in the right column, only to have it scroll into view, causing my next click to select a file from the new right column. And yes, this just gets worse when you have one long filename amongst many short ones, resulting in big gobs of whitespace between columns.
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David Wulff wrote:
If you have the list view set as default, all columns will be the same size regardless of the file name length when you first enter a directory.
I know they're the same size. That was my point - that all columns are the same width, regardless of whether that much width is actually needed to display the files in that column.
David Wulff wrote:
That is what mouse wheels are for. Just scroll down, and it will move down the list, even if that means moving the window to the left.
Yeah, i guess that gripe was a big vague. It's not that i have trouble scrolling when i need to, it's that i dislike it scrolling when i don't. I can't begin to count the number of times i've selected the wrong file in a List mode listview by Ctrl+clicking a partially-obscured name in the right column, only to have it scroll into view, causing my next click to select a file from the new right column. And yes, this just gets worse when you have one long filename amongst many short ones, resulting in big gobs of whitespace between columns.
Shog9 wrote:
all columns are the same width, regardless of whether that much width is actually needed to display the files in that column
What I meant was that the columns are the same size for filenames 10 characters long as those 255 characters long by default. It only increases if you refresh the list after it loads. By default, long filesname are shown with '...' after the first 30 odd characters. (I've just checked, but can't be bothered to count them.) Interestingly, I just checked this on Windows XP x64 (where it does what I've just said) and Windows Server 2003 (where it doesn't do what I've just said). I'm not in front of Vista right now to check but it would be interesting to see which one it follows. I'm guessing Vista follows on from XP so it should copy that behaviour, but I don't know yet.
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Shog9 wrote:
all columns are the same width, regardless of whether that much width is actually needed to display the files in that column
What I meant was that the columns are the same size for filenames 10 characters long as those 255 characters long by default. It only increases if you refresh the list after it loads. By default, long filesname are shown with '...' after the first 30 odd characters. (I've just checked, but can't be bothered to count them.) Interestingly, I just checked this on Windows XP x64 (where it does what I've just said) and Windows Server 2003 (where it doesn't do what I've just said). I'm not in front of Vista right now to check but it would be interesting to see which one it follows. I'm guessing Vista follows on from XP so it should copy that behaviour, but I don't know yet.
Ðavid Wulff What kind of music to programmers listen to?
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Sleep deprivation does not cause physical harm. Humans can only survive about a week without sleep before flat out dying. - Espeir Logic Prism.Huh... I'm using XP, and don't think i've ever seen the behavior you describe. Perhaps it is something to do with defaults though - i've certainly run into other odd/annoying things related to defaults on XP. I'll have to reboot into Vista later, and see how that acts.
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(This is not a "Mac OS X had that years ago" post at all.)
David Wulff wrote:
I even like the new control panel now I've discovered how great the search feature is.
I was so glad to see that in Vista since it has become indespensible to me from having used it in Mac OS X. All interfaces that list options should have that top-right filter/search feature. Bloody marvelous. As for harder I am finding the new Explorer to be a bit finicky. Especially trying to just type stuff into the address bar. Microsoft should copy the column feature from Mac OS X Finder. That works wonderfully well.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
Paul Watson wrote:
Microsoft should copy the column feature
Is this the one that keeps expanding out columns to the left when you select something a column? If so, that is one of the features of Mac that makes me stay away, I would rather have a tree view with folders.
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Shog9 wrote:
But yeah, OS/2 still shipped with a better text editor.
And you know the difference between Elvis and OS/2...?
Kevin
