Create keyboard shortcuts for self-modifying menu items

A [...] recent trend, is menu items whose names actually change when the chosen feature is enabled. In the Finder, for instance, the View menu contains Show Path Bar and (depending on your chosen view) Show Status Bar. Select either one, and the menus themselves switch to Hide Path Bar or Hide Status Bar. The advantage of this approach over the check mark is that it’s perfectly clear what happens when you select that menu item. The apparent disadvantage – and one I ran into myself – comes in trying to assign those menu items to a keyboard shortcut.

This is a neat way to solve the tricky problem of creating keyboard shortcuts for menu items whose names change.

- Ricky Buchanan

(Via Website: Macworld.)