i am not at my machine with the actual code to hand but i have several 
Applescripts that do this using something like "get terms from Quicksilver" 
which passes the content of the pane to the Applescript so should be entirely 
possible


On 5 Oct 2011, at 05:05, yoose wrote:

> Thank you for the reply Jon, DiffMerge has a command line interface
> and provides a shell script wrapper. I wrote a sample Applescript that
> will read two file names and feed it to the shell script. Is there a
> way for the AppleScript file to read the filenames from the first pane
> in quicksilver if I use the Current Selection proxy?
> 
> On Oct 4, 11:44 am, Jon Stovell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> FileMerge doesn't make itself available to open files directly from
>> the Finder (and therefore not from Quicksilver, either), so you can't
>> use Open With... to send a file to FileMerge. The Compare Files
>> service it offers is useless, since it does nothing different from
>> simply launching the application.
>> 
>> I'm not familiar with DiffMerge. If it offers a service, you may be
>> able to use that. If it provides an AppleScript dictionary, you could
>> write your own script to send two files to it, and then save that
>> script as an action in QS.
>> 
>> On Oct 3, 3:48 am, yoose <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi, I would like to select two files and use a trigger to open and
>>> compare them either in FileMerge or DiffMerge. I brought them into
>>> quicksilver and did an open with, but it did not work. I also tried
>>> the FileMerge services from finder with two files selected, but all it
>>> does is open the FileMerge dialog without the files selected. Any one
>>> have any ideas? Thanks.

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