It's confusing because ⇧ serves two functions - it creates an
alternative mnemonic for that letter, and it allows the new mnemonic's
Action to be called up from pane 1 or 2.
It's possible to create different mnemonics using the same string of
letters, but a different mixture of cases.
The ⌘ modifier only works on single ⇧letter mnemonics.
I bet it was always around. Howard, you said in your manual the result
of ⌘⇧letter Commands was sometimes unclear. Probably because the same
Action would often come up coincidentally for letter and ⇧letter
making it unclear that there was a difference between the two.
On Nov 8, 7:35 am, Howard Melman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, that fixed it for me!
>
> Indeed, Show Contact was the default for 's' and Show Source in Catalog was
> the default for 'S'.
>
> I'm not sure if this distinction was always in QS, but I doubt it. I'm
> certain I've never heard of it before. If it's easy to figure out from git
> history if it was added post B54 I'd defer to that if it's a bug or a feature
> otherwise I don't really have an opinion.
>
> Howard
>
> On Nov 7, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Henning Jungkurth wrote:
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> > I just tried what Howard said and had the same problem. But then I set
> > "Show Contact" as default both for "s" and "S" and now it works.
> > Are lowercase and uppercase letters really supposed to be something
> > different? Or is that a bug?
>
> > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Patrick Robertson
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> All that I can think of off the top of my head is:
> >> * From my limited testing it seems 's' and 'S' are considered different by
> >> QS. I'm guessing you've got the right one
> >> * Rob's done a bit of work cleaning up mnemonics, he'll probably have a
> >> good
> >> idea where the things are stored.
> >> * He may also be able to send over a script that can 'clean up' your
> >> mnemonics.
>
> >> On 7 November 2011 19:37, Howard Melman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >>> On Jul 7, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Rob McBroom wrote:
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> >>>> On Jul 6, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Howard Melman wrote:
>
> >>>>> How can Show Contact be your default action but something else appear
> >>>>> when typing S in the 2nd pane? AFAIK actions are not like catalog items,
> >>>>> they work solely on the rank in the Actions prefs. If Show Contact is
> >>>>> ranked
> >>>>> higher than S should bring that up first.
>
> >>>> I think that’s what you’d see with a fresh installation, but after QS
> >>>> starts learning, these will deviate.
>
> >>>> On Jul 6, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Howard Melman wrote:
>
> >>>>> I don't recall ever having done Set as Default for "S" but it's
> >>>>> possible, is there a way to check that?
>
> >>>> For catalog items, I think this is all determined by
> >>>> ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Mnemonics.plist. I don’t see
> >>>> any
> >>>> actions mentioned in mine and I don’t see specific sequences of keys
> >>>> mentioned in Actions.plist, so I’m not sure where it’s stored.
>
> >>> So I'm still having this problem with cmd-shift-s in the first pane not
> >>> running the default action Show Contacts but rather doing Show Source in
> >>> Catalog. I'm running the latest on Snow Leopard (QS B61 (3900) 10.6.8.
> >>> MacBookPro4,1 Intel Core 2 Due 2.4GHz, 4 GB RAM). I've tried quitting QS,
> >>> removing these folders and restarting:
> >>> ~/Library/Caches/Quicksilver/
> >>> ~/Library/Caches/com.blacktree.Quicksilver/
> >>> There was no ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Caches/ folder.
>
> >>> Show Contact is the default action for S for a contact and appears if I
> >>> type it in the second pane (as shown below). The same is true for Edit
> >>> Contact and cmd-shift-e which does perform Edit Contact as expected. I
> >>> don't
> >>> have the TextMate Ranker installed and have no duplicate plugins and I
> >>> believe they are all up-to-date.
>
> >>> I have a lot of triggers defined and a number of catalog sources and other
> >>> preferences (including action ranking) that I'm not particularly
> >>> interested
> >>> in reseting all my preferences.
>
> >>> Does anyone know where this information is stored? I looked in
> >>> Actions.plist and the only thing that seems odd is in actionPrecedence,
> >>> QSABContactShowAction has the value 3 while most have the value 0
> >>> (including
> >>> QSObjectShowSourceAction) and some have other integers and some have
> >>> decimal
> >>> values like 0.5, -0.5 and 0.1000000014901161.
>
> >>> Mnemonics.plist has the following under Root -> abbreviation for e and s:
>
> >>> Thanks for any help.
>
> >>> Howard
