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Re:Show HN: All desktop software calculators are wrong, so I... by vetinari on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:15PM (#30593413)
> You must know two things to proceed: That there is a secret hotkey to allow exact path specification, and what that hotkey is. It took me years to learn that there was a hotkey -- I just assumed that it was not possible.

There's also menu item in the Finder menu - you know, that thing on the upper edge of the screen - Go | Go to folder... and it also gives away the secret hotkey.

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Re:Show HN: All desktop software calculators are wrong, so I... by johnwalkr on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @08:53AM (#30599860)
It does fail on discoverability but there is a great feature of MacOS to compensate. The help->search function (shortcut key: Command-shift-/). I wish it was more prominent, like the quake console[1] or autocad command bar[2].

[1]Come to think of it, I used to have iTerm set up for this, I really must reconfigure it.

[2]https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore...

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Re:Show HN: All desktop software calculators are wrong, so I... by TheDudeMan on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:56PM (#30595640)
There is no Finder menu in the upper edge when you are in the file-selection dialog of some random app.
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