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0 pointsdonatj5y ago0 comments

Command-Shift-? is the better version of this imho, directly opens the help menu and you can just type the name of the menu item and hit enter. Way quicker than navigating to it.

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hobs5y ago· 2 in thread

Yep this is what I came to say - OSX's help menu automatically searches all menu commands and if you hover over them it will open up the menu, show you the location, and if you hit enter just use it for you.

This is also something you can generally call from Applescript as well, if you want to automate application behaviors.

IggleSniggle5y ago

Mind sharing an example AppleScript of that? Every time I’ve dug in there, it’s never had quite what I wanted. But this seems like an especially leverage-able idea.

hobs5y ago

It's been about 10 years since I touched that code, so apologies if these are all things you know.

I am pretty sure most of the work was just extending the documentation in https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/La... with looking up application "dictionaries" (iirc, a box of supported commands) and all menu items being accessible by default.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...

NateEag5y ago

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

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