4/3/2006
Making Life Easier
I am embarrassed I hadn’t thought of this sooner. Maybe I can blame it on coming from the Windows world where this type of thing would never work consistently enough to remember.
I open BBedit’s font pallete from time to time to increase the font size of a source file. [Going from 15″ PowerBook screen to 23″ Cinema Display makes a difference to my old eyes.] The font pallete is accessed via the Text menu item which ends up in the top left of the display. For some reason lately the pallete is popping up in the bottom right of the display. It’s a pain1 to mouse up left hit the ‘Show Fonts’ menu item then mouse down bottom right to adjust the font.
It just dawned on my to move the fonts pallete up to the screen top left, nearer the Text menu item. Of course on closing and re-invoking the font pallete, it pops back up right where I had left it, saving my mouse from having to navigate the full screen real estate again.
- Yes, I am aware of the irony of speaking of the ‘hardship’ of moving a mouse mere inches. [back]
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