Another possibility is to turn on the option "Switch to text mode if no match is found" in the Command section of the main QS preferences pane. It makes getting into text mode easier, which can be helpful if you go into it often, but also makes it more likely that you will go into it accidentally.
On Jun 29, 9:35 am, Rebecca O'Connell <[email protected]> wrote: > To get QS to treat text as text, bring up the Quicksilver interface, > and type period (or an equals sign if you want to enter an equation to > be calculated). You can then use the "Large Type" command or download > Growl and create an action to display a Growl message. > > Growl is a free application that displays notifications from > applications (for example, it can tell you what song is playing in > iTunes). There are scripts that you can put in the QS Actions folder > to create commands that will display your text as a Growl notice. You > can find two > at:http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver/msg/254eed5f2813... > > I don't know if this is what you mean, but you can use the Google > Search bookmark (http://www.google.com/search?q=***) and the Web > Search Module to enter a search which then comes up in your browser > window. > > On Jun 28, 2009, at 2:17 AM, benjykun wrote: > > > > > > > Hey > > > I want to try to type text in QS and have it expand on the screen. > > Unfortunately, QS always interprets my text as a file or data of some > > sort. Can I force it to only accept the text I enter? > > > How do I search the internet w/o using sherlock and that pesky apple > > script. I want to search the internet directly.
