thanks for the help Howard and Mason....i will play around and see if i have any problems
On Sep 7, 7:02 pm, mason k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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".
