Close "open file by name" window on 'open'

[Oliver Taylor]

Is there a way to have the "open file by name" window close when I open something? I love having fast access to the files but don't want that window to remain open all the time.

[Ryan Wilcox]

In the meanwhile it's easy to Applescript this or hook Keymando up to automatically close the window:

<http://bbedit-hints.tumblr.com/post/26979437023/closing-the-find-file-by-name-window>

Hope this helps
_Ryan Wilcox

On Thursday, August 2, 2012 9:19:04 AM UTC-4, Evan wrote:

Bump! Would love to have this window close automatically when I open a file.

[Rick Yentzer]

+1. I don't understand why this window remains open after I have selected a file.

On Thursday, August 2, 2012 9:19:04 AM UTC-4, Evan wrote:

Bump! Would love to have this window close automatically when I open a file.

On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 1:40:30 PM UTC-4, Oliver Taylor wrote:

[Rich Siegel]

On Monday, October 28, 2013, Rick Yentzer <ryen...@gmail.com> wrote:

> +1. I don't understand why this window remains open after I have
> selected a file.

Out of curiosity, why does it matter? (Asking for a friend.)

R.
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[Rick Yentzer]

The main reason is that I typically have My document window open on the left half of my screen and either a browser or an e-book on the right. After I have used the Open file by name window it obscures my other windows. I usually work on a 13" MBP. 

I'll send a screenshot when I get back to the office.

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[Rick Yentzer]

Here is the screenshot for reference.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6i9pbe8y8kn8aih/BBEdit-openfilebyname.png

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[Brian Porter]

I found this thread searching for a solution to this myself. The "Open File by Name" window stays open on my second screen, obscuring other applications.

In my usage, once I've found and opened the file I'm done with that window and want it gone. If I need it again, I'm likely to invoke the keyboard shortcut again whether the window is already open or not.

just my additional 2 cents.

Thanks,

Brian

[Patrick Woolsey]

On 4/6/15 at 4:56 PM, bepo...@gmail.com (Brian Porter) wrote:

>I found this thread searching for a solution to this myself.
>The "Open File by Name" window stays open on my second screen,
>obscuring other applications.
>
>In my usage, once I've found and opened the file I'm done with
>that window and want it gone. If I need it again, I'm likely to
>invoke the keyboard shortcut again whether the window is
>already open or not.

That's a very old thread :-) and there's an expert prefs option
to adjust this behavior; cribbing from the "Expert Preferences"
help page:

====
Windows and UI Tweaking

[...]

* By default, the "Open File by Name" window stays open when
you click
the "Open" button. However, if you would prefer for it to
act more
like a modal dialog, you may do so:

[ by issuing the following Terminal command on a single
line ]

defaults write com.barebones.bbedit
CloseOFBNWindowAfterOpeningSelection -bool YES

====

Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
==
Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com/>

[Brian Porter]

Thanks Patrick. It was definitely old, but I didn't turn up the expert prefs documentation in my searching and so resorted to resurrecting it. It's fantastic that it's available as a pref now.

And to boot; together we've probably helped everyone else who ever google's this issue again in the future.