On 14/03/2009, at 8:44 AM, Pete Siemsen wrote:
> I maintain some webpages of definitions for the people at my site, for > example > > http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/nets/topics/s.shtml > > I'd like to use QuickSilver to look up the terms in the files. Even > better would be if I could highlight a string in Terminal, Safari, > Mail etc. and hit a hotkey to see the definition, perhaps by opening a > Safari window onto the webpage. > > I implemented functionality like this with a Mac OS X Service that > executes a Ruby script that throws up a dialog box. It seems that > QuickSilver could do a similar job better. I tried adding the HTML > file to my QuickSilver catalogue, and specified the content as "text > line", and it kindaworks - QuickSilver displays the ugly raw HTML > containing the search term from the web page. > > Any suggestions welcome. I could make minor changes to the web pages > if that would help, but they serve a useful function in their present > form. I'm a QuickSilver newbie, so the answer might simply be "get > plugin XYZ". Have a read of http://www.davideisinger.com/article/custom-quicksilver-actions-in-ruby and see if you can use that approach.
