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While a contextual menu is open, typing the first letter of an item in the contextual menu will focus the cursor on that menu item.
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10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the keyboard
And it's about time!
10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the keyboard
It doesn't open a sub-menu in a contextual menu, though. So if I'm using, say, QuickImage, I can't hit Q and then V for "View" from the submenu. Pity.
10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the keyboard
No, but you can use the arrow keys to enter the submenu, and then type the first letter. So, to use QuickImage, you activate the contextual menu, hit "Q", use the arrow key to enter the submenu (which automatically highlights the top item, in this case "View..."), and then hit, for example, "A" to move to "Add Thumbnail Icon".
10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the keyboard
It is interesting. .... Because, after you navigate with a key click to a menu choice with a sub-menu, you can use your arrow key and step into the sub menu and then use the arrow keys or another letter key to get whereever you want to get.
10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the keyboard
And as you might guess, if more than one menu item begins with the same letter, you can keep typing the second letter, third letter, etc. until it selects the correct menu item.
10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the keyboard
You will also find that it's not always the first letter [of a menu item] that gets you there. For example, in Camino, if I ctrl-click this web page, I see two menu choices that start with 's': "Select All" and "Save As ...", but pressing the 's' key never moves me to "Select All".
10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the keyboard
Is there a way to get a context menu to pop up at the cursor with a key combination? This is the only feature I miss from my pc.
10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the keyboard
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10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the keyboard
it's not a perfect solution, but you can turn on Mouse Keys under Universal Access in the system preferences, and then hit ctrl-Keypad 5 |
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