Just as a follow up to this. I was using the type text action and it works. Whe you use type text it preserves the contents of the clipboard history. The downside is it actually types it in character by character. For long blocks of text it can be quite painful. I also made the mistake once of invoking QS after I did the type text and all the input went into the QS window which could have been really bad.
Another option in the second pane is Paste. This dumps all the text at once as expected. The only downside this way is the object you pasted becomes the newest entry in the history stack. Since you still have the rest of the clipboard history I found this to be not a big deal at all. I have always wanted a smarter copy action that would append to the previous copy. This eases that urge. I constantly have multiple terminal windows open at the same time. I want to copy out of more than one of them and put all the data together into firefox or some other place. Before I would copy form terminal, switch to firefox, paste, switch to terminal, copy , switch to firefox, paste. Now i can copy, jump to the other terminal, copy again, switch to FF, QS -> clip history, paste, invoke QS again, left arrow back to the rest of the history, and paste the other content. It doesn't sound so great in words I imagine. On Aug 28, 4:04 pm, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should make this clearer in the manual (see the Clipboard section) > but instead of using the clipboard history window with ⌘L, I bring up > the Clipboard History object in the first pane and right-arrow into it > (actually I have a trigger with the object and Show Contents action). > Then I select the history item I want and it's a simple step to tab to > the 2nd pane and choose the Type Text action. > > Howard > > On Aug 28, 2008, at 3:54 PM, Doug Harris wrote: > > > > > Can you elaborate on using the type text action? > > > I'm trying to paste an item that I have in the Quicksilver clipboard > > history. I've got a trigger to open the History window. > > > Once that's open, how do I use the type text action? > > > On Aug 28, 1:57 pm, Sesquipedalian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 1. Instead of pasting, you could use the type text action. > >> 2. The system wide default for paste-and-match-formatting is Shift- > >> Option-Command-V. > > >> On Aug 28, 11:17 am, Doug Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> I've been looking around Quicksilver preferences and searching this > >>> list and the 'net as a whole, but haven't found an answer to > >>> either of > >>> these: > > >>> 1. When I paste a domain name from the Quicksilver clipboard history > >>> (e.g.www.apple.com), Quicksilver prepends http:// so that I get > >>> "http://www.apple.com";. Is there a way to make it stop doing that? > > >>> 2. Is there a way to paste a clipboard item as plain text rather > >>> than > >>> keeping its original formatting? > > >>> thanks, > > >>> Doug
