On Sep 1, 9:21 am, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You might make use of the Save Command to File action. See the
> "Command Objects and Droplets" section of the manual for creating a
> command object.http://mysite.verizon.net/hmelman/Quicksilver.pdf
Yes, that seems to work, though I'm not sure I'm doing it right; I
can't figure out how to specify a filename within QuickSilver. (Of
course, it's easy enough to rename in Finder/Terminal.) I'm doing
this:
1. Control-Space to launch QuickSilver
2. Press "period" to switch to text mode
3. Type "Go stretch!" as the subject
4. TAB to the Action field, and type "LA" for Large Type
5. Press Control-ENTER to turn that into a command
6. Type "SA" to Save Command to File
7. Press TAB to reveal the Oobject field
8. ?? I can give it a directory name (i.e., "~" for my home
directory), but if I try to give it an actual filename, it starts
completing with existing filenames, which is exactly what I don't
want. I think it also puts it in the directory of whichever file got
displayed...
Can you clarify #8 a bit? The manual didn't go into details on usage.
>
> The Save Command to File… action takes a command object and saves it
> in a file. You enter the file name as the argument and Quicksilver
> saves it with the extension .qscommand. If you open the resulting file
> (e.g., by double-clicking it), it will run the command. Quicksilver
> makes running commands simple and triggers make running command even
> easier. But for commands that you might run a few times but not enough
> to bother creating a trigger for, the Save Command to File… action can
> be useful. E.g., if your working on creating a document and you want
> to send several drafts to a group of people (using the comma trick)
> it’s easy to save this (complicated) command in a file to rerun.
>
> Howard
>
> On Sep 1, 2008, at 8:24 AM, Jay Levitt wrote:
>
>
>
> > I want to set up a crontab entry that uses QuickSilver to display an
> > hourly alert, and I can't figure out how to do that.
>
> > I'm sure I could set up a custom QuickSilver trigger, but that seems
> > brittle. Is it possible to use the "qs" command-line plugin to send
> > data to more than just the subject pane, and to use text mode? I've
> > tried things like
>
> > qs ".Go Stretch!" "Large text"
>
> > but no dice.
>
> > Jay
