{"id":12381,"date":"2009-09-13T10:20:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/09\/13\/12381.html"},"modified":"2009-09-13T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T17:20:13","slug":"keyboard-shortcuts-for-applesc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/09\/13\/keyboard-shortcuts-for-applesc\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyboard shortcuts for AppleScripts in Snow Leopard?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/142494\/2009\/08\/snowleopardsystempreferences.html\">keyboard-shortcuts system<\/a> has been enhanced in various ways. But now I can't seem to assign a shortcut to an AppleScript.<\/p>\n<p>I also can't find any information about this online&mdash;in particular, I can't figure out whether it's user error on my part or a change in the OS. Articles I've looked at have fallen into any of several categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Written years ago, when AS filenames indicated keyboard shortcuts.<\/li>\n  <li>Written for Leopard, when assigning keyboard shortcuts to scripts worked just like assigning keyboard shortcuts to other menu items.<\/li>\n  <li>Recommendations to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacktree.com\/\">Quicksilver<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indev.ca\/MailActOn.html\">Mail Act-On<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/fastscripts\/\">FastScripts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I'd be willing to use one of those utilities, but before I download and install and learn to use a third-party system, I'd like to find out whether the capability I need is built into the operating system, as I think it was in previous versions. I know that Quicksilver is supposed to be the perfect all-purpose tool for every occasion, but for my particular purposes right now it seems kind of like swatting a fly with a hand grenade, or fixing a toaster by remodeling the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, I was rather surprised to be unable to find any page that compares and contrasts Quicksilver and Mail Act-On. I know that Quicksilver does a bunch of stuff that's way outside the scope of Mail Act-On; I'm not clear on whether Mail Act-On does anything that Quicksilver doesn't (or does anything better). Likewise with FastScripts: is there a reason to use that instead of (or in addition to) Quicksilver, other than Quicksilver's general vastness?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, my main question here is: should it work to assign keyboard shortcuts to AppleScripts (for Mail.app) in Snow Leopard? If so, is there anything special I need to do to make that work? I carefully checked the spelling of the script name two or three times, and tried a couple of different script names, and tried both an app-specific script and a user-specific script, but couldn't get the keyboard shortcut to show up in the script menu. (And yes, I quit Mail and restarted it after each attempt.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the keyboard-shortcuts system has been enhanced in various ways. But now I can&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}