How to see menu items of an app?

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Timothy Roes

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Sep 18, 2019, 4:40:15 AM9/18/19

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Hi,

I stumbled upon this old YouTube video from LoveQuicksilver and was wondering how to reproduce what's shown at 0'.26", namely to see all the actions related to the app that you're currently in.

In the video the user is in a textedit file and can see 'Preferences...' but also for instance 'Export to PDF', an action that I'd be interested in using as well;

How to do this?

Thanks!

Rob McBroom

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Sep 18, 2019, 7:57:34 AM9/18/19

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On 18 Sep 2019, at 4:40, Timothy Roes wrote:

I stumbled upon this <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sFzMZwyvwI> old

YouTube video from LoveQuicksilver and was wondering how to reproduce
what's shown at 0'.26", namely to see all the actions related to the app
that you're currently in.

Install the User Interface plug-in.

With that, you can select an application and use the Menu Bar Items… action see a list in the third pane. You can also select an application and run the Show Menu Items action. This will redisplay Quicksilver with a all of the menu items in the results so you can search them there.

This might seem basically the same, but for the latter action, you can create a trigger more easily. In the video, I suspect Phil had a trigger set up for Current Application ⇥ Show Menu Items.