Search for and activate application menu items for the frontmost application. The workflow lists the menu items for the current application, filtering them by whatever is entered into Alfred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Apps can easily have dozens of menu items, and this would make them all command prompt-able.<\/p>\n
Standardization is also an interesting thing to consider. It seems some apps have followed each other. Command-Shift-P is the Sublime Text command runner, which was used by Chrome DevTools, and also by VS Code. I kinda like the Command-Space of Spotlight, but that doesn’t mean web-based apps should copy it. In fact, it means they can’t, because the OS would override it. <\/p>\n
TL;DR<\/h3>\n
When UI is cumbersome or impractical, a command line makes good sense. Many apps benefit from offering both a UI and a command line, in various forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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