I can't think of a way to do exactly that, but there is a "Spotlight in Window" QS command. No way to make a trigger but you can type your search, tab, "spot," enter. That makes a Spotlight window, of course...
Also, if you're on Leopard and don't mind paying some money, there's HoudahSpot (http://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/), which has a fast- search feature. It may open a Finder window as well, though. On Apr 10, 2:27 pm, Antonis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have this problem with Spotlight, it won't wait until I've stopped > typing before it starts searching. One way to overcome this would be > to type my search string somewhere else, copy it, invoke the Spotlight > search field and then paste it there. This of course is not practical > at all. > > I was wondering if there is a way to use QS instead. I picture > something like this: > 1. Invoke QS with a trigger to bring it in "Send this directly to > Spotlight when I press enter" mode > 2. Type what you want > 3. Press enter (just enter, no tab, no nothing) > 4. Spotlight is invoked with the search string already pasted in the > search field > > I know I can use the Spotlight plugin to sort of get this > functionality, but I haven't found a way to use it with a trigger so > that it would only require one key press to bring it up. Also, I don't > know if the Spotlight plugin is able to use the Spotlight menu, I can > only make it use a Finder window. > > Has anyone found a way around this?
