I agree you can't create the trigger as you want but I have some ideas:
1. You can prioritize the actions in the Actions Preferences to move
Spotlight in Window (or whichever is your favorite) to the top of the
list for text. This way it will be the default action. This may or
may not be what you want (I have Find With... as the default action
for text).
2. You can prioritize the Spotlight action you want so it's the first
choice for S. You can test this by typing text into the first pane,
tabbing to the second and typing just S and seeing what action
appears. If it's the default action for S then you can activate
Quicksilver (control-space), type . (or ') to enter text mode in the
first pane, type your text and while still in the first pane type
command-shift-S to immediately perform the action associated with S.
3. If you often search for text that appears somewhere (in a mail
message, on a web page, in a document) you can create a trigger using
the Current Selection Proxy Object in the first pane and your
Spotlight action of choice in the second pane. Then you merely
highlight the text you want to search for and type the trigger hotkey
to perform the search.
4. As an alternative to #2 you can create a trigger using the
Quicksilver Selection Proxy Object and the spotlight action of your
choice. Then you can activate Quicksilver, type your text and
immediate hit the trigger hotkey to perform the search on the
Quicksilver Selection (which is what you typed in the first pane).
I don't think there's a spotlight action to use the menubar menu. On
Leopard at least Spotlight in Window and Spotlight in Finder do the
same thing (Spotlight lost it's own window in Leopard). You might
find you like Spotlight in Command which displays the results in a
Quicksilver results list mean you can type to select a file and then
perform any Quicksilver action on it.
Howard
On Apr 11, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Daniel wrote:
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?
