Finder: Why doesn't paging move focus of selected item in list?

Maybe I'm missing something...

Say I'm viewing the contents of a folder containing a 1,000 files in list mode. I can "page" through the list and all the items scroll but the selected item doesn't change. I have to "mouse" to the item I want when it comes into view.

Is this by design?

Mal said:

Why would "paging" (I assume you're referring to page up/down) affect the selection?

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To save me the trouble of moving my hand from the keyboard, over to the mouse then back to the keyboard again?

I also find paging down through a text document without the cursor following me to be a pain. All of Apple's apps do this I guess whereas OpenOffice and MS Office don't. (Not sure about the iWork apps though)

That would be highly illogical.

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Not really. I along with most of the mac world came from Windows so it's hard to convince us that saving needless "hand movement" is better.

I just thought there was a keyboard equivalent to do this in OSX.