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Re:I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar by sleepybrett on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @12:12PM (#13366533)
BetterTouchTool seems to be coming to the rescue here.

https://www.boastr.net/second-touchbar-alpha-available/

I haven't played with it yet, but it looks like as long as the thing you want to do has a hotkey you can use this to make touchbar button to do it whenever you are in that particular app.

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Re:I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar by binaryabyss on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @07:31PM (#13370703)
It's pretty great, actually. You can also set it to run AppleScripts, which can call the shell. I have set up buttons in the touch bar for common tasks such as zipping an archive without .DS_Store crud in Finder, and for AirMail I have a button that creates a folder based on the subject line of the open email thread and saves attachments there. I have no idea how the Touch Bar is supposed to be useful by default, but I'm finding it quite nice with some work.
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