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Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one click
Authored by: osxpounder on Jan 05, '05 04:21:53PM

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.

My hunch was just this: if it's a menu item, and there's some other presumably common thing you'd like to do with that menu item other than the default action the menu item normally initiates ... then try Option-clicking it. For Scripts, I assumed a commonly desired thing would be to open it in the editor.

If Option-click doesn't cause the result you were guessing it would, it's worth trying a Shift-click, too. Last night, Fire [chat app] crashed on start every time. I tried Shift-clicking the alias I use to open it, and it opened without automagically connecting -- and it didn't crash. Apparently Shift-click often starts apps without special startup options.

See what I mean about guessing? If you think there's a chance the programmers anticipated what you'd want, try an Option-click or a Shift-click. When I do, I'm often pleasantly surprised.

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