In Finder, if you highlight a file and then ctrl-click or right-click
the 'Open With' menu is displayed. Is there a way to assign a keyboard shortcut to one of those actions so that I can dispense with the
ctrl-click and navigating the mouse down to the required action?
It's fine once or twice but rapidly becomes tedious when it has to done frequently. Note that I explicitly do not want to permanently change the default application that the file type opens with because I am
alternately editing these files in two apps.
In Finder, if you highlight a file and then ctrl-click or right-click
the 'Open With' menu is displayed. Is there a way to assign a keyboard shortcut to one of those actions so that I can dispense with the
ctrl-click and navigating the mouse down to the required action?
It's fine once or twice but rapidly becomes tedious when it has to done frequently. Note that I explicitly do not want to permanently change the default application that the file type opens with because I am
alternately editing these files in two apps.
I'm using Monterey.
Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> wrote:
In Finder, if you highlight a file and then ctrl-click or right-click
the 'Open With' menu is displayed. Is there a way to assign a keyboard
shortcut to one of those actions so that I can dispense with the
ctrl-click and navigating the mouse down to the required action?
It's fine once or twice but rapidly becomes tedious when it has to done
frequently. Note that I explicitly do not want to permanently change the
default application that the file type opens with because I am
alternately editing these files in two apps.
I'm using Monterey.
Yes, you can create a keyboard shortcut.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp2271/mac
On 03/09/2022 12:43, Andy Hewitt wrote:
Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> wrote:
In Finder, if you highlight a file and then ctrl-click or right-click
the 'Open With' menu is displayed. Is there a way to assign a keyboard
shortcut to one of those actions so that I can dispense with the
ctrl-click and navigating the mouse down to the required action?
It's fine once or twice but rapidly becomes tedious when it has to done
frequently. Note that I explicitly do not want to permanently change the >>> default application that the file type opens with because I am
alternately editing these files in two apps.
I'm using Monterey.
Yes, you can create a keyboard shortcut.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp2271/mac
Unfortunately that doesn't work because of this restriction stated at
the bottom of the page: "You can create keyboard shortcuts only for
existing menu commands. You can’t create keyboard shortcuts for general purpose tasks, such as opening an app."
So I can successfully create "File->Get Info" but I can't create
"File->Open With->MacVim.app".
I was able to create an Automator 'quick action' which receives the
selected Finder item and passes that to a Shell script to open it; and
then assign a keyboard shortcut to that in the Keyboards control panel.
Not being able to run any menu command seems like a missed opportunity.
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