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Add a keyboard shortcut to any Services menu item
Authored by: bluehz on Apr 08, '03 11:39:50AM

Yes - the one service cmd key I wanted was saving a selection to BBEdit. I searched and thought I finally found the "key" to use - cmd+shift+B.... nope... turns out Mail uses that one. So the big challenge here is finding and unused cmd key sequence. I wish there was a way to print out a chart of EVERY cmd key used in every app (or at least a selected subset) on your machine - now THAT would be useful!

In my case I just changed the "B" in Mail as I will use the Save to BBEdit more than Add BCC. Its robbing Peter to pay Paul or however that saying goes. I used an app called Rekey to change the shortcut in Mail - its the only way I could figure out how to do it. If you use Rekey - its finicky as hell! The menu name MUST MATCH EXACTLY (case matters) and there is no way to remove a shortcut for an item. At least I was unable to - every time I trie dto remove an item (untick all the boxes and remove the ltr) Rekey would crash instantly. So I ended up just chagning the key cmd (Although I would have preferred to remove it).



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Add a keyboard shortcut to any Services menu item
Authored by: mici on Jun 17, '05 06:24:11PM

with developer tools intalled, you can edit Mail interface .nib file with Interface Builder. just open the app package contents, look up the MailViewer.nib file and edit (WYSIWYG) menu item shortcuts to your liking.



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