James Andrews

I was reading the macintosh livejournal community page looking to avoid what I was suppose to be doing. When I came across a post from a recent “switcher” Who was looking to change the way the context menu in Safari worked. He wanted to remove the “Search with google” menu item and put “Search with something else”, which I thought was silly, but whatever floats his boat. I read through the other community member comments, and one individual pointed him to an application called “On My Command” which allows you to add custom context menu items to the context item list. This was a great find. One of the things I have wanted to do is be able to “right click” on a folder and open it with TextMate. Which I can now do thanks to OMC.

I am not going to write a tutorial on how to use OMC, but rather refer you to one on Simple Help.

So far I have added 9 cool new commands.

Open with TextMate.
Copy Path to the Clipboard
Download with WGet
Strip HTML Tags
Track UPS packages
Track Fedex packages
svn add, commit, and update

The thing I would like to see done is modify svn commit to ask you for a commit comment, as right now it only blanks it out. I have the Tracking fedex and ups grouped under Package Tracking. It’s all very cool

One of the features I really enjoy about OMC is you can use more than one scripting language. php, bash, Applescript. It seems nothing is off limits. So if there’s something you’ve been looking to add to your context menus in OSX now you have a means to do it.

http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/06/12/how-to-add-commands-to-the-os-x-right-click-menu/