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In article <296@pai.UUCP> erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson) writes:
>So would I.  The Mac Finder style of interface is great for pointing,
>clicking, et. al., but it breaks down in selecting.  In the Finder,
>I can select a rectangular area of icons, one icon or all the
>icons in a window.  The system breaks down, though, if I want to
>select all the .c files, for example.  Unless I spend a good deal
>of time arranging all the .c files (as opposed to the .h, .txt, etc. files)
>into rectangles, I have trouble copying some items to back them up.

I realize it isn't automatic like typing *.c in MS-DOS and Unix, but
what about shift-clicking?  In this case you don't have to make sure
that the files are all in the same rectangle, although you still have
to manually click on all of them.

It would be nice if the View By Kind finder option could be enhanced
to do the kind of ordering that would be helpful in this case.  Within
a particular kind it would be nice if files could be further sorted.
There should be a dialogue where the user can specify the sub-sorts.
For the above purposes you'd like to sub-sort by the name suffix.
Then you could easily shift-click all the .c files, since they would
all be adjacent in the listing.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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