Move Mouse Cursor to Text Cursor Position

No utility I know of can do this.

OSX simply doesn’t expose the contextual menu of the cursor location to a keyboard API – nor does it expose the exact position of the cursor to allow a utility like KM to move the mouse pointer to that location and perform a right-click.

Personally I think it’s nuts, but Apple plainly has never understood (or cared about) convenient keyboard access to all menu items. They’ve been way too mouse-centric over the years.

(I am well aware of the keyboard shortcuts to move focus to menu, dock, etcetera – these are all awkward compared to Windows – sad to say.)

Apple’s disdain for usability is/was one of the primary reasons why I thought the 128K Mac was junk. It was pathetic from a usability perspective. Then came an upgrade to a MacPlus, a DataDesk 101 keyboard, a RAMDisk, QuicKeys, a succession of usability utilities – and the Mac became a player.

I’m still using one 30+ years later.

And still cussing about their shortcomings.  :smile:

-Chris

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