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In article <5360020@hpccc.HP.COM> land@hpccc.HP.COM (David M. Land) writes:
<OK, now it's my turn to get flamed.  MicroSoft Windows has a nice feature
<for us keyboard jockeys: type the first letter of the file you want to
<select, and the first file (in alphabetabular order) with that letter gets
<selected. Sorta like the standard file dialog deal, only it advances to 
<the next file name if you keep hitting the same letter (slowly).  This
<would be nice out at the finder for those of us who don't always find
<the mouse the handiest way to get things.
<

I'm not exactly sure this would be a good idea for the Finder, since
it kind of gets into the modality problem.  As it is, typing is only
used for modifying filenames.  If this feature were to be added,
typing would hilight the correct item, unless the user had clicked in
a filename (and the cursor was blinking and all that.)  This would be
especially problematic when the file whose filename you are modifying
somehow gets off screen.  Still, maybe there's a way to work around
this problem.

Another cute trick with the standard file dialog is that if you type
multiple letters quickly, it'll find the first file starting with
those n letters.  As you are typing, it hilights the file beginning
with how many ever letters you've typed in so far, so you can quit when
you've typed out enough....

-Sho