Keyboard navigation returns to file dialogs
Today’s Mac OS X Hints mentions that keyboard navigation works in file dialogs in Mac OS X 10.2.3. That’s a feature that worked wonderfully in Mac OS 9 and earlier, but hadn’t been enabled in Mac OS X. I’d given up all hope of seeing it until 10.3, but it turns out that it works as of the latest update.
My only complaint with the new feature is that it’s not as easy to dive into a folder as it was on Mac OS 9. In Navigation Services dialogs, you could could press Return to enter a folder. On Mac OS X, Return seems to do nothing in the same circumstances. Instead, you have to press the right arrow key. I can’t reach the right arrow without moving my hand away from its standard typing position, which makes diving through folder hierarchies a lot slower than it was on 9.