surely.
On Mar 15, 2009, at 9:34 PM, Howard Melman wrote:
On Mar 15, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Chris Cairns wrote:
but if you want a honest opinion: Butler does these things far far
better than Quicksilver. I personally use Butler for pasting text.
Out of curiousity, can you describe what Butler does differently
from QS in this regard?
Surely. (I m sorry that no Howard Melman has written a manual for
Butler, so you will have to bear with my explanation).
Butler allows us to make a container (Custom pasteboard) which can be
opened up as a menu near them mouse or any screen corner. This
container can be assigned a shortcut and it list all its items (text,
images etc) in a menu. Butler offers the facility to set up a trigger
either to the menu or to the individual items of the menu or to both.
Also, all the items of the menu can be executed sequentially and a
trigger can be set to do this.
Also there are plenty of presets like "Paste recent pasteboard 1"
"Paste recent pasteboard 2"
"Paste as plain text" etc
Then there is a separate "keystrokes" which accepts any keys that can
be thrown into anywhere or used to paste text.
After all this, there is also a separate "Text" smart item (probably
to separate only plain text triggers).
And remember, there are no trigger scoping issues which really
multiplies the importance of all this when compared to quicksilver.
So if you are impressed, please start writing a manual for Butler. If
you are not i m willing to continue the debate.
