{"id":152,"date":"2003-01-02T14:57:21","date_gmt":"2003-01-02T19:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=152"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"that_sort_of_thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/02\/that_sort_of_thing\/","title":{"rendered":"That Sort of Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber, whose Daring Fireball has lost its Bob Dole\/Karl Malone complex, <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2002\/12\/that_sort_of_thing.html\">compares<\/a> BBEdit 7&rsquo;s new sorting plug-ins with the latest version of Craig Maynard&rsquo;s venerable <a href=\"http:\/\/linesort.sourceforge.net\/\">LineSort<\/a> plug-in. This comparison is missing from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/8.12\/bbedit.shtml\">BBEdit review<\/a> because for some reason I thought that LineSort hadn&rsquo;t been Carbonized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>Modal dialogs get a bad rap from many users, so you might find it curious that Bare Bones would choose to use them for new plug-ins. But there are in fact several advantages to modal dialogs. One is that they can be driven by the keyboard. Bring up BBEdit 7&rsquo;s Sort Lines dialog, then hold down the Command key, and a moment later you will see shortcuts appear for each of the checkboxes in the dialog. These shortcuts don&rsquo;t conflict with normal menu command shortcuts, because most menu commands are disabled when a modal dialog is open. A floating palette such as LineSort&rsquo;s can only be driven using the mouse.<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Modal dialogs, used right, are <em>great<\/em>. I&rsquo;m so sick of these Cocoa applications where it&rsquo;s impossible to tell which window has keyboard focus.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber, whose Daring Fireball has lost its Bob Dole\/Karl Malone complex, compares BBEdit 7&rsquo;s new sorting plug-ins with the latest version of Craig Maynard&rsquo;s venerable LineSort plug-in. This comparison is missing from my BBEdit review because for some reason I thought that LineSort hadn&rsquo;t been Carbonized. Modal dialogs get a bad rap from many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}