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Comment by Timothycquinn | Hacker News Reader

At least windows explorer has some great extension utilities like File Menu Tools; a tool that can be configured to cover pretty much every file explorer extension usecase you can imagine.

OSX and XDG (Gnome etc...) based systems have nothing close last time I checked.

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In OS X, Automator lets you add Finder context menu options that can, among other things, trigger AppleScript actions that can, in turn, run arbitrary (command-line and GUI) programs. These actions can optionally be configured to only appear for certain file types.

Recent Finder versions relegate custom actions to a "Quick Actions" submenu by default, but you can restore an action to top-level by removing the "NSIconName" entry from the action's Info.plist in ~/Library/Services.

macOS has Services, which I think are meant to serve much the same function.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

(EDIT: I was "posting too fast". In the meantime, I think that jasomills has pointed this out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31305652).)

Your analytical skills could use some work - that feature has been in Finder for over half a decade. It's also vastly more powerful as it can interface with AppleScript. I think they've added Shortcuts to the latest macOS release which introduces infinitely more possibilities, though admittedly I'm quite unfamiliar with this

Trollish usernames aren't allowed here, because they effectively troll every thread they post to. I've therefore banned this account. If you want to pick a different username, we can unban you.

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On a different note, can you please omit swipes and putdowns (like "Your analytical skills could use some work") from your HN posts? That sort of thing degrades discussion and evokes worse from others, so we're trying to avoid it here. Your comment would be just fine without that leading bit.

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