OT: Terminal here Was: [Pythonmac-SIG] Let's do it completely different!

[tmk]

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 =

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