Customize Script menu in CotEditor

You can change the order of sripts in the menu or assign keyboard shortcuts to scripts by modifying the filenames of your scripts in the script folder.

Order of items in the menu

By adding “number + closing parenthesis ())” at the head of the name, you can line up the files in numeric order. The part “number + )” won’t be shown in the menu.

Example
Filename	Display in the menu
01)Open File.scpt	Open File

Separators

A folder named “-” appears as a separator line in the menu. By adding “number + closing parenthesis ())” at the head of the folder name, you can put a separator between the menu items.

Hidden files/folders

A file/folder whose name begins with the underscore “_” will not be lined up in the script menu. You can use it for setting files, library scripts, and so on.

Submenus

Scripts placed in a folder in the scripts folder will appear as submenus.

Keyboard shortcuts

By adding “dot (.) + modifier key + shortcut key” in front of the extension, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to the script.

Shortcut keys are case sensitive. The one in uppercase indicates that “the Shift key should be pressed together.” See the examples below to see how it works.
A shortcut key must come after modifier keys and must be one letter. Thus, you can’t assign the keys such as F1 or Delete to scripts.
When the keyboard shortcut you set is already taken by another function, the shortcut for the script will be ignored.

Modifier key notations
Notation	Equivalent key
^	`Control`
$	`Shift`
~	`Option`
@	`Command`

Examples
Filename	Display in the menu	Shortcut
Insert String.@e.scpt	Insert String	`Command`-`E`
03)Insert Date.@~Y.scpt	Insert Date	`Option`-`Shift`-`Command`-`Y`

Set the same shortcut to multiple scripts

CotEditor changes keyboard shortcut mapping dinamically to prioritize the scripts in the subfolder whose name is the same as the frontmost document's syntax style when the same keyboard shortcut is determined in multiple CotEditor scripts.