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25 sep. 2006

@apple@

Decaffeinated quotes Joel Spolsky:

After a few releases, the Mac designers went a little too far and decided that a trash can with something in it should look “stuffed.” […] The trouble is that neat freaks were distracted by the full trash can. It looks messy. When they wanted to clean up, they would empty the trash. Over time, many people got in the habit of dragging things to the trash can and then mechanically emptying the trash so that the trash can wouldn’t look messy, thus defeating its original purpose: to provide a way to get things back!

I’m not a neat freak, but I do spend my time emptying the trash. So here’s an interesting thought: if you have a program that lets you change the trash icon, set the same icon for empty and full states. That ought to be better.

 

@apple@

The only gripe I’ve had with TextWrangler ever since I started developing websites on the Mac is that I keep having non-breaking spaces screwing up my PHP code: on French keyboards curly brackets are accessible by pressing the Alt key, and whenever I type a curly bracket preceded or followed by a space there are 50% odds that the space will end up Alt-ed too and my PHP will have parsing errors — because PHP doesn’t bother to recognize non-breaking spaces as spaces.

Maybe there are some other ways, but I never found one; it only occurred to me today, though, that there is a fairly simple way to disable Alt-Space in TextWrangler, using Proxi (which I like to use better than Quicksilver for keyboard shortcuts because it’s less laggy): simply create a keyboard shortcut that hijacks Alt-Space.

Yay!

If you can’t make the trigger respond to Alt-Space, just insist — the trigger setup functionality seems a bit buggy.

 

[+11h] Hmm, wait. I just realized that, the way Proxi works, it intercepts Alt-Space whether TextWrangler is active or not, and then tests which application is active — so Alt-Space is disabled for any app. Which I don’t mind much, because I never use it anyway, but there’s got to be a better solution.

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