Re: a GtkFileChooser comment

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Daniel Brockman <drlion deepwood net> writes:

> Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com> writes:
> 
> > Sven Neumann <sven gimp org> writes:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Also, as you say '~' and '..' are valid starting paths for files
> > (eg. "~200-250 recipes.txt", "...And Justice For All.mp3").
> > Currently, you can type the first couple letters of a file and hit
> > enter -- I don't know how you'd distinguish between wanting the home
> > dir in one case and the file in the other.
> 
> While I agree that adding additional meanings for `~' and `..' would
> slightly increase ambiguity, the ambiguity already exists:  You can
> have one file named `foo', and another named `foobar' --- or even one
> named `~'!

You can swap between similarly prefixed names by hitting up and down.

-Jonathan