Simulating a right click onto text selection (without using the mouse)

[Martin_RAISON]

Hello!

I'd like to simulate a right-click on a text selection without using the mouse.

This would let me quickly select spelling corrections for words I mistyped, all while keeping my hands on the keyboard. As someone who likes to type quickly, I think this would be a great optimization.

• Is it possible to achieve this with a keyboard macro?

The challenge is that the text selection is unlikely to be directly under the current cursor position…

Thanks a lot!

[Zabobon]

You can do this with a Keyboard Maestro “Move or Click Mouse” Action. With the Action simulating the right mouse button press in the current location. For this to work the mouse curser needs to be hovering over the text - which is not always ideal.

If you have MacOS Sequoia there is a much better option:

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[kevinb]

Shift-command-semicolon (or command-colon!) will toggle the Spelling and Grammar box for the word under the cursor.

@Martin_RAISON

The challenge is that the text selection is unlikely to be directly under the current cursor position…

You would have to move it there, then. I don't know how else you would communicate to the system which word you wanted to check.

[Martin_RAISON]

Hi Zabobon!

Thanks for the tip - it works expected in my the app that I use for writing unfortunately - RemNote.