keyboardmacosshortcut-menuspellcheck
In Windows, one can hit Shift+F10 to access the "Context Menu." But a similar keyboard action doesn't seem possible on Mac. One potential application…
When I make a spelling error in a document, Lion gives me the option to correct the error by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking, two-finger tapping, etc) on the misspelled word and bringing up the context menu.
How can I open this menu from the keyboard? And is it possible to access the Context Menu from a Mac keyboard?
If you don't want to waste your CTRL-L, you can make CTRL-"] key" work like this:
:map CTRL-VCTRL-"] key" <C-]>
I don't know any way to show a context menu for items selected with the keyboard like what the menu key does in Windows.
To assign a keyboard shortcut for performing a secondary click at the current coordinates of the pointer, you can either:
Use a private.xml like this with Karabiner:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<item>
<name>Right Mousebutton</name>
<identifier>rightMouseButton</identifier>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::OPTION_R, PointingButton::RIGHT</autogen>
</item>
</root>
Use BetterTouchTool:
Use Keyboard Maestro:
Download MouseTools and assign a shortcut to MouseTools -rightClick.
Best Answer
I always have the same question but I didn't find the answer yet.
In Windows, when we use the keyboard short-cuts we mostly use the Menu key in Windows keyboard:
When this Menu key is pressed, Windows will assume that you right-clicked the highlighted/active element > then it will show you the context menu even if the mouse pointer is not pointing to the highlighted element.
So this feature seems to be missing in Mac OS. And whatever suggested solutions, even Enable Mouse Key it always require you to point/move your mouse pointer to element first, which is meaningless. If I need to use the keyboard short-cut to open the context menu on the highlighted item, why do I need again to move the mouse pointer to it also. Somehow this is not a short-cut!!