This is something I learned from Howard Melman's user's guide.  You
can set a default action to appear by object type.

To do this, bring up a contact in the 1st pane.  Tab over to the
second pane, _don't type anything_, and arrow down to disclose the
list of actions.

_Without typing_, find the action that you want to make default, right
click it, and select "make default".


On Sep 7, 9:44 am, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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".

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