[X4U] Thoughts on Spotlight?

[Eddie Hargreaves]

On 4/30/05 5:16 PM, Vince Lewis <vplewis at mac.com> wrote:

> On Apr 30, 2005, at 4:37 PM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:
> 
>> Instead of selecting Get Info using Command-I, select Show Inspector using
>> Command-Option-I.
>> 
>> Finally! We can now choose between having a Multiple Item Info window or
>> multiple Get Info windows (like in pre-OS X). The latter is very helpful for
>> showing a side-by-side comparison of two folders/items while the former is
>> very helpful for adding up the size of folders/items and applying the same
>> file permissions to multiple items.
> 
> This has been available since at least Jaguar. And I don't think it was
> ever available in <OS X--been a couple of years since I last looked at
> the Classic OS.

The Multiple Item Info inspector window has been available in OS X. I'm
talking about the other version: having two Get Info windows appear
side-by-side. This is Classic Mac OS functionality that I have sorely missed
until now.