Ok, how's this? https://youtu.be/2hL1brds1XA <https://youtu.be/2hL1brds1XA> :)

The relevant PR is https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/143 
<https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/143>

> On Jul 24, 2017, at 9:46 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, you are right in pointing out how Finder handles things. I have some 
> changes which are *almost* there...
> 
>> On Jul 24, 2017, at 8:42 PM, Kevin Haywood <khayw...@ucsd.edu 
>> <mailto:khayw...@ucsd.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> Ah, I see - these are features then, not bugs!  My apologies for the noise - 
>> I wasn’t monitoring the dev list before, and didn’t know about the existing 
>> discussions : )
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Kevin
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 24, 2017, at 9:29 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomat...@gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:danomat...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Ok, what's funny is that both of these points are things that people 
>>> *wanted* in feedback from the first test release. I'm not sure if I'm able 
>>> to spend another day tracking down too many details...but here we go.
>>> 
>>>>>> Thirdly, the Help Browser behaves unusually in multiple ways: first of 
>>>>>> all, it starts off with the top item double-selected (both blue 
>>>>>> highlight and dotted border to the blue highlight), but despite the 
>>>>>> double duty, you still have to click to select that item again in order 
>>>>>> to get the next column to show up.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That's normal and was the previous behavior. Hit enter or click.
>>>> 
>>>> In macOS 0.47-1 64-bit, there’s nothing that gets selected automatically 
>>>> when opening the Help Browser.  When I do click to select something, I 
>>>> don’t get the black dotted border on the blue highlight.
>>> 
>>> From feedback 
>>> (https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2017-07/119363.html 
>>> <https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2017-07/119363.html>):
>>> 
>>> - The first item that appears when entering a new directory for the first
>>> time is selected with a squared box, but it's not selected in blue, which
>>> is confusing because selection actually does takes place (i.e., if the item
>>> is not a directory, hitting the 'right' arrow will open it)
>>> 
>>> The black box is the keyboard focus highlight while the blue background is 
>>> the listbox active item. From this feedback I connected them. I'm guess you 
>>> prefer them not to be connected?
>>> 
>>> One issue is that on some versions of TK it seems as though that black box 
>>> is not displayed, so if you use the keyboard, you have no way of knowing 
>>> where you are, hence selection highlight follows keyboard.
>>> 
>>>>>> If you use the keyboard arrow keys to navigate the Help Browser, and 
>>>>>> have navigated to at least the second column, if you use the left-arrow 
>>>>>> to navigate back one column, then use the up- or down-arrow keys to 
>>>>>> browse the items in the current column, the right-most column doesn’t 
>>>>>> update its contents, instead retaining the contents it had previously, 
>>>>>> creating a visual mismatch, as seen in the screenshot.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That's also normal / previous behavior. Click or hit the right button to 
>>>>> update. If the browser updates whenever you navigate it goes a bit crazy 
>>>>> visually.
>>>> 
>>>> This is also not previous behavior for me: in macOS 0.47-1 64-bit, 
>>>> whichever column is to the right of the current selection always reflects 
>>>> the contents of the current selection (mimicking the behavior of the macOS 
>>>> Finder, as one example).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It is previous behavior if you only click with the mouse and Pd 0.47 works 
>>> the same (I just downloaded it to make sure). Pd 0.47 doesn't have the 
>>> browser keyboard update and as soon as you start using the keyboard, yes 
>>> things can perhaps be out of sync if you're expectation is as you've 
>>> stated. Is this what you are referring to?
>>> 
>>> This is again related to showing where the keyboard focus is. I will see if 
>>> there is a happy medium...
> 
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> 
> 
> 

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