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Agaric wants to create a new text file with a keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X

By Benjamin Melançon
on 26 Oct
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Agaric wants to create a new text file with a keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X... until this half of Agaric gets over to Ubuntu.

An aside regarding Ubuntu: Is this functionality already in Ubuntu? Can you create basic file types from the file navigation tool? Is it easy to make keyboard shortcuts?

NuFile makes a contextual menu (not a File or Services menu) that I do not know how to create a keyboard shortcut to. (I guess I should appreciate the ability to create a new file at all.)

No-one's done this in the services menu? The best way is AppleScripts that rely on a third-party keyboard shortcut / application launcher solution? (See http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-21379.html )

I guess I'll continue to mostly tab to TextEdit and hit Command-N (and drag my open finder window over to the text document when I click save and that dialogue opens), or alternately click my Finder link to open iTerm at the path of the directory I'm looking at, which at least gets me to type the file name (and so have it saved) right away: vi here-is-my-new-text-doc.txt.

But what I really want is for me to be able to pick up some text in a document or web page or e-mail (drag and drop with the mouse, I'm addicted) and bang open a new text document file in a folder that is also open, dropping my text in. That is the workflow of which I seek...

 

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