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Accidental Tech Podcast

613: Dress for the Chip You Want

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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0:00.0

What are you hitting escape for most of the time, Margo?

0:02.3

A lot of times I will use it to defocus a text field or something or cancel a menu or cancel a dialogue box.

0:10.3

I don't know.

0:10.6

I use it all the time.

0:11.3

Or I'll use it for autocomplete in text areas or in Xcode.

0:15.4

Like, it's, I use it all the time.

0:18.1

The main thing I use it for when I'm not like an Emacs, which I'm rarely in.

0:22.2

But anyway, the main thing I use it for, believe it or not, is canceling drags.

0:25.1

I don't know if you two do this, but I'm very often dragging things around in the

0:28.2

finder and saying all the time.

0:30.0

And thinking better of it.

0:31.1

I'm like, eh, no.

0:32.3

And I just want that drag to be over and I love escape for that. I do wonder when people who don't know how to do

0:38.1

that. What do they do when they have essentially a handful of files and they're like remember where

0:42.8

they started direct with the finder so weird about that. I didn't know I could do this. This is

0:46.0

amazing. Yeah. I just, I'll tell you what I do. I just try to carefully put it back. That's what I don't, escape, escape. That's why you had your escape keyboard. Does it escape? You don't have to,

0:57.0

carefully putting it back used to be so much better. And now in the finder when I,

1:00.6

even when I, if I try to carefully put it back, it's like, I don't trust it. It's like,

1:04.1

is it going to move files up on the, like it was a list view window, try putting files back in a list view window where you have a bunch of folders turned down. Escape. Escape says bail out of this drag operation. It works across the whole operating

1:15.6

system, I'm pretty sure. Oh man. This is life-changing. So this is even like when you when you told me like a

1:22.4

year ago to like in order to get to my downloads downloads folder i used to like click the stupid icon

1:30.0

that brings up the stack and then like the keyboard shortcut yeah and you told me just hold down

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