@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@pacohope said:I was surprised to see that MacOS doesn't have a better way to print the contents of a directory, either. Of course, it's unix, so you can do in MacOS the same things you can do in any unix or linux: 'ls -l | lpr' or 'ls -l > file.txt' and then print file.txt with an editor. But Mac has so many good GUI ways to do things that I was surprised this just wasn't there. Apparently, to read some of the blogs out there, it's been missing since the first MacOS X and people have been complaining for years.
There are plenty of freeware utilities to do it for Mac, but no native, out-of-the-box way. Huh.
Yeah Windows is the same way. I truly wish there was a little option hidden in the Folder Options for explorer that enabled a 'power user' mode or something. Then MS could take a lot of the suggestions the rest of the community has and work on them there... maybe even make it plug in enabled, and publish everything they have and take community changes. That would be a nice way of making Windows more powerful, allowing them to pretend they care about open source, etc. Maybe even use some of the concepts on the next OS.
Not that I expect that will ever happen, and it is possible to write your own shell anyway, but it would be nice.
It already is plugin-enabled, and the APIs for this are already completely documented. This is how things like briefcases and zip folders work.