[Pythonmac-SIG] Let's do it completely different!
Israel Evans
israel@lith.com
Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:56:39 -0700
I found something awhile ago called "Open Terminal Here" which does exactly
what you asked: Opens up a terminal from a finder folder with that folder as
the current directory.
try: www.entropy.ch/software/applescript/welcome.html . THis should take
you to the correct page.
~Israel~
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Barker [mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:52 AM
Cc: pythonmac-sig@python.org
Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Let's do it completely different!
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.
-Chris
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