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Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS
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Cant enable sidebar - file pane #1717

Closed Fischmuetze closed 3 hours ago

Fischmuetze commented 1 day ago

Description

Cant enable sidebar file browser. .. both menu entries for the sidebar are always greyed out No idea how to enable ... if there is a way its far away from intuitive

To Reproduce

Start the app, open a file .. try to enable the sidebar

Expected behavior

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CotEditor version

5.0.0

macOS version

macOS Sonoma 17.4 (23H124)

Additional context

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Fischmuetze commented 1 day ago

ok got it ... click on a folder in the open dialog will enable the sidebar, but this is a very, very strange idea. The standard macOS behaviour for selecting an folder and click on the the open button will dive the dialog browser into the selected directory. This is NOT a macOS standard conform behaviour and far away from intuitive ... :( The reason why all other macOS editor I know have an extra menu entry for open a directory

.. and more there are no tabs for open documents in such file browser windows nor a switcher for open files and all files will always saved even the option is disabled ... ok guess I'm to stupid for this kind of app logic ... switch back to vsc and bbedit

1024jp commented 3 hours ago

click on a folder in the open dialog will enable the sidebar

I believe just clicking a folder in the Open dialog does not open a document with the sidebar but just moves into the folder in the dialog. In order to open a folder as a window, you need to click the "Open" dialog. In addition, this is the standard behavior of the Open dialog in macOS, as CotEditor does nothing for the file browser in the open dialog.

The reason why all other macOS editor I know have an extra menu entry for open a directory

Hmm, for instance, macOS-native editors such as Nova, CodeRrunner, and CodeEdit have only the Open command performing in the same manner. (I suppose BBEdit also has only the Open command.)

and more there are no tabs for open documents in such file browser windows nor a switcher for open files and all files will always saved even the option is disabled

It's a feature task already posted in another thread: #1712.