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Make right-clicking on OSX accessible via a keyboard shortcut.
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Even though a [native solution][1] exists, it still suffers from a big flaw: it right-clicks the place you cursor is, not what you’re selecting. This addresses that limitation. | |
You can install this as a [Finder Service, and later asign it a keyboard shortcut][2]. | |
[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9171613/right-click-shortcut-for-mac-lion-os | |
[2]: http://www.macosxautomation.com/services/learn/tut01/index.html | |
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tell application "System Events" to set frontApp to name of first process whose frontmost is true | |
if (frontApp = "Finder") then | |
tell application "System Events" | |
tell application process "Finder" | |
set _selection to value of attribute "AXFocusedUIElement" | |
tell _selection to perform action "AXShowMenu" | |
end tell | |
end tell | |
end if |
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