Look in the Actions Preferences pane. Actions are ranked and objects are grouped into types (text, contacts, applications, etc.). Be sure to set the drop down to the left of the search box in Action Preferences to "by Type" to make this clear. Sort the actions by Rank (click on the Rank column header) and you can drag and drop them around. So you can set the highest rank action for a contact to be Show Contact.
Some objects have multiple types and it isn't always clear what is what. If you select All Actions in the Type column you can see them all and change the ranking. Contacts also count as email addresses (or at least contacts that have an email address set do). So since Compose Email is set higher than Show Contact for me (14 vs 33) I see it as the default action for a contact with an email address set.
Play around with this and you should be able to get QS to guess pretty well. You can't set actions for individual objects. So that you can't have a different default action for two different files.
Howard On Sep 7, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Chris wrote:
I frequently send emails in the manner described in Quicksilver User’s Guide i.e. pressing A to get the contact's name (e.g. Annie) pressing Tab and then I have to press C (for compose email). Is there a way to further customize quicksilver and make it understand the action required depending upon the item in the first pane. For example, if the item in the first pane is Annie, the action should be "compose email" by default instead of "show contact" and if the item in first pane is "text" then the action should be "search with google" rather than "large type".
