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Created April 30, 2016 16:12
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Make right-clicking on OSX accessible via a keyboard shortcut.
(*
Even though [a native solution](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9171613/right-click-shortcut-for-mac-lion-os) exists, it still suffers from a big flaw (it right-clicks the place you cursour 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](http://www.macosxautomation.com/services/learn/tut01/index.html).
*)
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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