Try going through this tutorial, helps you enable all the stuff to make this go: http://www.nutmac.com/2008/02/01/web-search-with-quicksilver-the-definitive-how-to/
On Aug 22, 4:31 am, Osbert Lancaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks > > Had both those options checked - unchecked the first, nothing seems to > have changed. > > Still have the major problem of only QS only offering to show my > selected text as 'Large Text' rather than running a search on it. > > cheers > > Trebso > > On 21 Aug 2008, at 18:48, Benton G wrote: > > > > > In the Quicksilver tab of the Triggers pane, there should be just two > > triggers: one is "Command Window in Text Mode", the other is "Command > > Window with Selection". You want to check the latter, then you can > > map the key combination to whatever you want. I personally use Ctrl- > > Option-Space because that seems to not collide with any other > > application's hotkeys, and it's close enough to Option-Space (my > > preferred QS hotkey) that I can remember it. I haven't had the > > problem with having only the "Large Text" option. Hope that helps. > > > --Benton > > > On Aug 20, 11:20 am, trebso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks to you and Howard - nearly works! > > >> Couple of problems: > > >> 1) When invoking QS using Cmd-ESc, QS only gives me one option: > >> 'large > >> text'. It doesn't appear to search for the text like normal. Which > >> means it's pretty useless for what I need! > > >> 2) The specific app I want to use this in Things (at GTD app), seems > >> to respond the Cmd-Esc as if it's just Esc, and QS isn't invoked. > >> Other apps seem to be ok. > > >> Cheers > > >> Trebso > > >> On Aug 20, 4:41 pm, Sesquipedalian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> Make sure "Pull selection from front application instead of > >>> Finder" is > >>> selected in the Extras section of QS's Preferences, then use ⌘- > >>> Esc. > > >>> Note that in order to avoid conflicts with Front Row using ⌘- > >>> Esc, you > >>> may need to change ⌘-Esc to some other key in QS's preferences, or > >>> else change Front Row's key command to something else using the OS > >>> X's > >>> Keyboard and Mouse system preference panel. > > >>> On Aug 20, 10:22 am, trebso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>> I want to select text to invoke QS. Eg, I select the text, "jim", > >>>> hit > >>>> a specific key combo, and voila, QS is invoked, using that text. > > >>>> Is this possible? > > >>>> cheers > > >>>> trebso
