Invoke right-click context menu from the keyboard for arrow key selected item

javacowboyjavacowboy
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in macOS
Is it worth it for macOS to support invoking the right-click context menu from the keyboard for the currently arrow key selected item (as opposed to the mouse pointer) as is possible in Windows and Linux?

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/41201/os-x-right-click-context-menu-via-keyboard/254595#254595

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    javacowboyjavacowboy Posts: 864member
    I guess DED disagrees with this:

    http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/08/11/how-apple-keyboards-lost-a-logo-and-windows-pcs-gained-one/

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    Microsoft also added a special key for opening contextual menus, featuring the icon of a pointer on a menu. The key simply acts like the right mouse button; it’s not only superfluous and clumsy for PCs using two button mice, but also less elegant than Apple’s convention for using control-clicking to bring up a menu with the mouse.
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    DED has written a *lot* of good stuff, and is usually *extremely* attentive to detail, but he missed an important one:

    The context menu key or SHIFT-F10 keyboard shortcut invokes the context menu at the keyboard pointer, not the mouse pointer.  This can be either a cursor on a word in a text editor, a selected file in a file manager, or some other GUI element selected with the keyboard.

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