You could make those aliases manually. Just create a subfolder of Applications, say /Applications/Abbreviations, and put aliases in there to common apps. You can even make the aliases with Quicksilver-- There's an action called Make Alias In..., which will use the same name as the original file but if you reinvoke QS that new alias will be selected and you can rename it. Then reinvoke again, Cmd-R to rescan and you should be good to go.
On Mar 24, 9:21 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really? That's a bit unfortunate since it would be a killer feature. > The only thing that slows me down with QS is having to pause and > remember the name of an application to launch it - being able to > assign a mnemonic based on function rather than name would make the > process much smoother and would be in keeping with the QS motto. > > Of course I could assign a trigger to launch such apps but this > feature is precisely for those apps (or files) that you don't use > often enough to justify a trigger - and if you use an app that > frequently you probably already know it's name by heart. > > It doesn't sound like it would be a difficult feature to add either - > even if for some reason QS only works by indexing file names, Assign > Abbreviation could create file aliases for assigned abbreviations and > index those. Piece of cake, right? > > Scott > > On Feb 14, 6:16 am, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > assign abbrev only works if QS would have found the app if you had > > typed the string. So you can't use it to make an abbrev irc for > > Colloquy or ftp for Cyberduck. > > > Howard > > > On Feb 13, 2008, at 12:04 PM, metropical wrote: > > > > every now and then certain mnemonics won't work. Even if I decrease > > > score on the Finds. In most cases, QS won't even Find the item I'm > > > looking for. These are always apps, some are Java. > > > Any thought on a fix?
