Mac sub-menu tip

Here's a tip I found out myself a couple years ago. It works on Mac OS X, it might on Windows too, I dunno.

If you right-click (or control-click) to get a pop-up menu on some item, for example a file, and one of the sub-menus have *many* options, for example a big folder, it may take several seconds to open, even on a fast machine, which slows you down if you did not actually want that sub-menu, but just wanted to go past it.

The trick is to not pull the cursor *through* the menu, but in a curve *around* it, so the cursor does not touch the menu items until lower on the list where you wanted to go. The menu items you don't touch, don't open a sub-menu.