[robg adds: Amazingly handy, and as far as I can tell, not documented anywhere...]
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I wanted to look at the code of an AppleScript in the Scripts Menu. Normally, I would have to do this by navigating to the script in the Finder and opening it in Script Editor. But I took a wild guess and Option-clicked on the script in the menu, and it opened in Script Editor directly! This makes tweaking my frequently-used scripts really easy.
[robg adds: Amazingly handy, and as far as I can tell, not documented anywhere...]
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Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one click
This feature has been available as long as the Scripts Menu has been around, I believe. You may also notice that some apps with Script menus also have the same feature, notably Tex-Edit Plus. Other apps with Script menus offer an "Open Script Folder" option in the menu, which, agreed, is not as swift as the Option-click feature.
iTunes lacks an "Open Scripts Folder" menu option. Here's a script that you can place compiled in your iTunes Scripts folder (home/Library/iTunes/Scripts) that will open the iTunes Scripts folder in the Finder:
Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one click
Other notable apps are those from Bare Bones: BBEdit, Mailsmith, and TextWrangler.
Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one click
Sweet!
Thank you, FunkDaddy.
Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one click
Funny coincidence -- just 2 days ago I tried this myself, for the first time, on the hunch that it might work exactly as you described. I assumed, since it did and my guess was right, that this was something Mac veterans already knew about even though it was news to me.
Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one click
Have a look at Apple's own page on the Script Menu which details this as well as the fact that shift-clicking a script in the script menu will reveal it in the Finder.
Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one click
Nice! Thanks for that link.
Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one click
If you use FastScripts 2.x it even turn the cursor into a pencil to indicate this behaviour.. nice touch! Shift key makes an 'alias' cursor to indicate it's gonna reveal it in Finder... |
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