Re: Finder Improvements

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From: Stephen B. Baumgarten
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1988 22:47

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In article <209@bti.UUCP> mfm@bti.UUCP (Merle F. McClelland) writes:
>Another suggestion for Finder/Multifinder improvements would be the ability to
>send a window to the back of the stack.  With the Apple menu application items
>you can bring windows to the front (as well as simply clicking on them if they
>are visible), but if, for example, I have a large drawing window in the
>foreground, and I want to temporarily bring all other application windows to
>the front, I have to individually select each window.  This isn't a major flaw,
>but I would be nice to have a complete set of window management facilities.

QuicKeys does this (and many other things) very nicely.  And having the
``bring to front'' and ``send behind'' functions bound to keys makes them
easy to use in any application. 

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!esquire!sbb
From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Finder Improvements
Keywords: finder, undo
Message-ID: <817@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 88 22:47:16 GMT
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