Comments on: Leopard at first sight http://crz.lt/2007/10/27/leopard-at-first-sight/ what's on my mind Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:24:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anon http://crz.lt/2007/10/27/leopard-at-first-sight/comment-page-1/#comment-8189 Anon Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:25:05 +0000 http://crz.lt/2007/10/27/leopard-at-first-sight/#comment-8189 The "Go To Folder" feature appears to have some case sensitivity issues with it's auto-complete feature. This may be a feature considering who the feature is for (Unix geeks who like to type path names), but it isn't quite what humans expect. Put two folders in your Documents folder labelled "BRAINS" and "Blubber". Go into a program like TextEdit and pull up an Open File dialog. Press Command-Shift-G to open the "Go To Folder" dialog where you can start typing in a path. Type ~/Doc and wait a second. It will suggest ~/Documents/ so press the forward arrow, type "B", and wait for the suggestion. On my Mac it shows "BRAINS" which is the first file in ASCII or UTF-8 order (since capital letters all come before lowercase letters), but if we're ignoring case like we do on this HFS+ file system, it should be "Blubber" since L comes before R. Most unix geeks probably expect the UTF-8 ordering rather than the case insensitive ordering, so this might just be a question of who you're talking to as to whether it's "Bloken" or not. The “Go To Folder” feature appears to have some case sensitivity issues with it’s auto-complete feature. This may be a feature considering who the feature is for (Unix geeks who like to type path names), but it isn’t quite what humans expect.

Put two folders in your Documents folder labelled “BRAINS” and “Blubber”. Go into a program like TextEdit and pull up an Open File dialog. Press Command-Shift-G to open the “Go To Folder” dialog where you can start typing in a path. Type ~/Doc and wait a second. It will suggest ~/Documents/ so press the forward arrow, type “B”, and wait for the suggestion. On my Mac it shows “BRAINS” which is the first file in ASCII or UTF-8 order (since capital letters all come before lowercase letters), but if we’re ignoring case like we do on this HFS+ file system, it should be “Blubber” since L comes before R.

Most unix geeks probably expect the UTF-8 ordering rather than the case insensitive ordering, so this might just be a question of who you’re talking to as to whether it’s “Bloken” or not.

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