From tmk@mac.com Thu Jan 1 02:50:54 1970 From: tmk@mac.com (tmk) Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 03:50:54 +0100 Subject: OT: Terminal here Was: [Pythonmac-SIG] Let's do it completely different! In-Reply-To: <3DB5741D.F48C84C5@noaa.gov> Message-ID: On Tuesday, Oct 22, 2002, at 17:51 Europe/Brussels, Chris Barker wrote: > Jack Jansen wrote: >> On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 06:00 , Tony Lownds wrote: >>> I'd be extremely happy if users could find the "right place" to put >>> extensions through the finder. Neither current >>> Python in CVS nor the plans for "doing it completely differently" >>> have >>> this property. >> >> Could you elaborate, please? I'm not sure I understand exactly what >> you >> mean... > > My interpretation of that comment is that the Finder, by default, does > not show the "unixy" parts of the file system (/usr etc.) This makes it > impossible for users to view/manipulate any of those parts of the file > system with the finder. If that is where the Python stuff is, it's > tricky for a user to find whether a given package is installed, for > instance. > > Frankly, this is my number one annoyance with OS-X: if you want to do > old time command line unix stuff, you can do that, and if you want to > do > all-gui mac-like stuff, you can do that, but never the twain shall > meet: > it is very awkward to switch between the two. > > I have set up the finder to show me everything, which is an > improvement. > Does anyone know how I could put a button on the finder that would open > a terminal, with the working directory set to the current finder > selected folder? I use this feature all the time in KDE on Linux, it is > very useful. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020426093503563 Has an interesting discussion with various ways of doing the above. HTH. = tmk = > > -Chris > > > > -- > Christopher Barker, Ph.D. > Oceanographer > > NOAA/OR&R/HAZMAT (206) 526-6959 voice > 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax > Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > > Chris.Barker@noaa.gov > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig >