From: alex wallis <alexwallis646_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:47:38 +0100

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> That's neat. Since the lists are circular, I would never have thought
> that holding the key down, which normally repeats, would stop at the
> list ends. It is inconsistent behaviour from a UI design point of view,
> but a handy feature to have. I never new about it either. If it is in
> the manual, I must have missed it.
>
> Incidentally, Alex, my trick for getting quickly to the beginning of a
> directory is to back up to the previous level (left arrow) and enter the
> directory again (right arrow). To get to the end, I do the same thing
> followed by a press of the up arrow. The two downsides of my method are
> that it involves a disk spin-up each time you do it and, of course, you
> can't do it on the root directory since the Files item on the main menu
> places you on the file that was highlighted the last time you were in
> the file browser.
Why don't you enable the dircache option? I find for me at least it means I
have a lot fewer disc spin ups, which I like as of course drives are
increasingly hard to find these days.
> Cheers,
> Andrew.
>
>
Received on 2009-06-15