Create a new file in Nautilus with a shortcut

It is not very convenient to do a mouse click to create a document. We can create a shortcut  like for the terminal using scripts-accels.

We would create a script ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/newFile with the commands to create a new file. Don't forget to make the file executable.
To run this script through a shortcut we need to modify the file ~/.config/nautilus/scripts-accels.
I added the line  N newFile
and my files looks like this

F12 Terminal
N newFile
; Commented lines must have a space after the semicolon
; Examples of other key combinations:
; F12 Terminal
; F12 Terminal
; F12 Terminal

Now we have to put the commands for the file creation into ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/newFile. The simplest option is touch untitiled_document, however we  still would need to click on the file,  then press F2 to rename it and I find it  is quite cumbersome to do every time. I tried to select a file through DBus messages but unfortunately Nautilus does not have a DBus interface for file selection. The possible solution is to use Zenity (a tool for creating Gnome dialogs, credit forum.xfce.org). I used the  following script

#!/bin/sh

file=$(zenity --title 'Select Filename & Destination' \
--width=300 --height=200 --file-selection \
--save --confirm-overwrite)
if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then
   touch "$file"
fi