I don't know of a way to do this. It sounds useful, though thinking it through a little, for something short like "jim" I think I'd find it easier to just type it into QS rather than selecting the text (probably with a mouse). For something longer, perhaps the Spotlight in Command action is what you're looking for. It needs the spotlight plugin and searches file contents rather than using QS's index, but the results show in QS.
Howard On Sep 1, 2008, at 5:59 AM, trebso wrote:
I can select text, and invoke QS, type Cmd-G, tab to next pane - and QS offers me a range of actions. But - it doesn't offer me the action I actually need! What I want is for QS to search for that selected text, in the same way is searches if I type. Specifically, what I want to do, is to select a name in one app, eg 'jim' and then run QS to find Jim in AddressBook. However, starting with selected text QS seems to just offer me actions like 'large text', 'show contents' etc. Am I missing a vital step?
