Am 28.05.2015 um 18:57 schrieb James Knott:
> On 05/28/2015 12:38 PM, James Knott wrote:
>> On 05/28/2015 12:21 PM, Andreas Säger wrote:
>>> I don't understand why any application should do this.
>>> Put your files into your assumed auto-start folder. I would use links
>>> instead of the real files.
>>> Open that folder, hit Ctrl+A and Enter to open all the files with the
>>> default application.
>> That was possible in OS/2, but I haven't seen it anywhere else.  With
>> OS/2, you could create a "Work Area" folder and whenever that folder was
>> opened, whatever was in it would also open.
>>
> 
> Forgot to mention, closing the folder also closed the open documents. 
> So, you could create a work area folder for a project, place all the
> files for that project in the folder and then open or close them all at
> once.   You could also create shadows for those documents in the work
> area folder, but leave the originals elsewhere.  A shadow is another
> instance of the exact same file, so changes in a shadow automagically
> appear in the original.
> 
> 

With any popular Linux desktop and (Windows too) Ctrl+A selects all file
icons in a folder window.
And the Enter key does the same as the double-click. It triggers the
standard action which should be "open" for all document files.
I would not be surprised if something similar works with OSX as well.


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