Keyboard Shortcut To Get Contextual Menu

Does anyone know a way to configure a keystroke to pop up the contextual menu on the selected item instead of control-clicking?
I'm trying to eliminate as much use of the mouse as possible when interacting with my Mac.
Thanks

There actually is an answer to this--sort of. I presume you have already started investigating the System Prefs section on Keyboard & Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts and turned on the Full Keyboard Access so you can navigate with the Keyboard.
There is in addition the Universal Access pref pane. In the Mouse section you can turn on Mouse Keys--and Control-5 is a control-click and will bring up the contextual menu. Use System Prefs Help, search on Mouse Keys for more info.
Just fooling around with this a little bit but couldn't really get the hang of moving the mouse around--it kept "popping back" to the beginning spot rather than staying somewhere (among other problems). And I couldn't figure out how to get it to work with keyboard access either. There's probably more info about this somewhere.
Francine
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