Hello Howard,

thanks for your answer! I'll read and try this alternative on weekend.

Tom

On Apr 30, 3:31 pm, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know how to do this with QS making use of your Saft keywords.  
> However the web search plugin does this and combined with triggers and  
> current selection proxy objects can make searching very quick and is  
> my most common usage of Quicksilver.  I've completely described how  
> this works in the Web Searches section of the 
> manual:http://mysite.verizon.net/hmelman/Quicksilver.pdf
>
> Howard
>
> On Apr 30, 2008, at 9:04 AM, TomFromMunich wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi folks,
>
> > I guess I'm just too dumb to get this working, maybe somebody has a
> > hint for me - thanks in advance!
>
> > I'm using Safari with Saft (other tools can do similiar) where I just
> > have to enter
>
> > "g foo" into address field and a google search for "foo" is triggered
> > after enter,
> > "imdb Iron Man" and a search on the imdb is triggered etc. (first word
> > is a keyword which Saft uses to replace the text with an URL, and the
> > following words are input as parameters).
>
> > What I now want is a solution for entering this text in Quicksilver
> > which sends the text to Safari and puts it into the address field and
> > triggers the input - because I don't always wanna have a Safari window
> > open - and 50% of my inputs for my Mac start with QuickSilver 8-) then
> > this would be raised to ... 85% ;-)
>
> > I tried various quicksilver steps. For example I tried with entering a
> > point for getting the "text input mode" and several actions but
> > nothing works like I wish it would. Sometimes the events are too
> > special because they want to "search with google" etc. but I just
> > wanna have the text in Safari's address field - followed by a return
> > for "GO" ;-).
>
> > Maybe somebody just knows a tool (maybe a widget ?!) which is just
> > waiting for some inputs and just gives them to Safari (not
> > automatically to google!! just to Safari because then Saft has to take
> > over.
> > Maybe it's just a question of a short applescript ...
>
> > I hope you get the idea ;-)
>
> > Greetz from Munich,
>
> > Tom

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