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Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows
Date 2014-02-10 19:39 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <blso85Ft9grU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2014-02-10, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2014-02-10, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You used to be able to close windows like that by holding down the 
>> option key and clicking the "go away" button. Now you can do CMD-OPT-W 
>> but I believe it closes _all_ your windows.
>
> Command-Option-W (or holding Option while clicking the close widget)
> closes all windows *in the current application* - just as it has for
> ages. There may be one or two exceptions by badly-written applications;
> but this is standard behavior for Mac applications.

BTW, lest someone get confused by weasel-boy's typical useless comment,
both Command-Option-W and Option-clicking the close box does close all
Finder windows in Mac OS X 10.9.x (and just about every other previous
release in recent history I've bothered to try it in).

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JR

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RE: How to auto close all Get Info Windows stoutyhk <stoutyhk@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 09:32 -0600
  Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows David Ryeburn <david_ryeburn@telus.netz> - 2014-02-09 11:53 -0800
    Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-10 09:15 +1100
      Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-02-09 22:44 +0000
        Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 10:08 -0500
          Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-10 16:42 +0000
            Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 13:36 -0500
              Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-02-10 20:30 -0500
                Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-11 01:36 +0000
                Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 21:21 -0500
            Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-10 19:39 +0000
              Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 14:52 -0500
          Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-11 06:37 +1100
            Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-11 08:05 +1100
              Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 16:31 -0500
                Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-11 11:19 +1100
                Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 20:01 -0500

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