February 2004
Intermediate to advanced
383 pages
11h 49m
English
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The Services Menu
Mac OS X’s Services menu (Terminal → Services) exposes a collection of services that can work with the currently running application. In the case of the Terminal, the services operate on text that you have selected (the pasteboard). To use a service, select a region of text in the Terminal, and choose an operation from the Services menu. Mac OS X comes with several services, but third-party applications may install services of their own. When you use a service that requires a filename, you should select a fully qualified pathname, not just the filename, because the service does not know the shell’s current working directory. (As far as the service is concerned, you are invoking it upon a string of text.) Here is a list of options available in the Services menu:
- Finder
The Finder Services menu allows you to open a file (Finder → Open), show its enclosing directory (Finder → Reveal), or show its information (Finder → Show Info).
The Mail → Send To service allows you to compose a new message to an email address, once you have selected that address in the Terminal. You can also select a region of text and choose Mail → Send Selection to send a message containing the selected text.
- Make New Sticky Note
This service creates a new Sticky (
/Applications/Stickies) containing the selected text.- Open URL
This service opens the URL specified by the selected text in your default web browser.
- Script Editor
This service gets the result of an AppleScript, makes a new AppleScript ...
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