Mac interface gotchas (was: Finding errors in manuals)

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Richard Combs and David Neeley noted the incongruity of using the  
trash icon to eject disks. FYI, this has been fixed since at least,  
OS X, and possibly earlier: the new command name is "Eject [disk  
name]", and the keyboard shortcut is Command + E. Makes much more sense.

No, the Mac isn't inevitably superior to Windows, and like all  
developers everywhere, Apple sometimes get it wrong. My current  
object of implacable hatred is the Spotlight search tool: the  
keyboard shortcuts I've learned over 20 years for navigating the File  
dialog box keep landing me in the search tool instead of in the  
folder list. Grrrr.... Wish they'd provived an option for disabling  
this bug... er, feature. <g>


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