Contextual menu keystroke (without mouse) at current +focus+, not pointer?

Hi all,
I'm wondering if this is improved in Leopard:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5921600
Thanks,
Matthew

Not that I know of. You can use the keyboard to navigate the menus for an item when its selected. Perhaps you can use a third-party software solution to activate the contextual menus with a key sequence.

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