Creates a new script window, sized and configured according to your saved defaults, if any.

If the General preference “For New Documents” is “Show Template Chooser”, the template chooser appears instead.

Shows the template chooser for creation of a new script window.

Creates a new script as a tab in the frontmost script window.

If the General preference “For New Documents” is “Show Template Chooser”, the template chooser appears instead.

Shows the template chooser for creation of a new script tab.

Brings up a file dialog where you can choose a script file (to open it for editing) or an application (to open its dictionary).

Brings up a dialog where you can enter part of the name or contents of a script to do a Spotlight search.

Lists, and lets you open, recently opened scripts.

Presents a hierarchical menu where you can open the dictionary of a scripting addition or an application in the Running, Recent, or Favorites category of the dictionaries list. To open the dictionary of an application not listed here, choose Application (the first item in this menu).

Opens the dictionary for the current tell context.

Opens the currently selected outliner item in a separate explorer window. (Alternates with the previous menu item.)

Closes the frontmost window; if the frontmost window is a script window consisting of multiple tabs, closes the current tab. If closing a “dirty” script, you’ll be offered a chance to save it.

Closes the frontmost script window, even if it consists of multiple tabs. If any of the scripts in those tabs are “dirty”, you’ll be offered a chance to save them.

Closes all windows. If any scripts are “dirty”, you’ll be offered a chance to save them.

Saves the frontmost script. If the frontmost script has never been saved, works like Save As.

Brings up a dialog for saving the frontmost script as a new file, possibly in a different format.

Similar to Save As, except that afterwards the script window shows the old file, not the newly created file.

Performs a Save on every “dirty” script.

Reopens the frontmost script from its previously saved state, throwing away any changes made since the last save.

Brings up a dialog where you can choose a script file to open as text if possible. The text is pasted into a new untitled script window or tab.

Saves a copy of the current script as a run-only script.

Saves a copy of the current script as a flattened script that incorporates the script’s libraries.

Saves a copy of the current script as a user template, to appear in the Template Chooser as a basis for future new scripts.

Opens a text copy of the current script in the target application, initiating an external editing session.

Brings up a dialog displaying the applications and scripting additions on which the current script depends.

Lets you set the format in which the script should be saved. Only formats compatible with the script’s present format are enabled; to change to another format, choose File > Save As.

If the script is an applet (script application), lets you set its applet options.

Reveals in the Finder the current document (for a saved script), application (for a dictionary), or reference (for a selected reference to a Finder item in an outliner).

Opens an additional window on the current script or dictionary.

Displays, using Quick Look, the currently selected reference to a Finder item (alias or file reference) in an outliner.

Brings up the standard dialog for preparing to print.

Brings up the standard dialog for printing the frontmost script or dictionary.

You can force a page break in the printed output of a script by including the word !pagebreak! in a comment at the point where you want a new page to start.