Hi,

I think it would be really awesome if you could add another option for a 
"smarter" search bar behavior to the preferences. A lot times i find myself 
wishing i could combine all the other options instead of having to choose 
between them. What i would suggest is for the behavior to be context 
sensitive based on the current selection in the first pane.

For example pressing the spacebar would perform the following actions in 
order of priority:

folders/files - navigate into folder or file (ie show apps recent 
documents, txt files contents, etc..)
search urls - jump to argument field 
files - quickview for any file that you can't typically navigate into

And here is Patrick's take on the workflow order which i think would work 
very well:


   - invalid search string, switch to text mode when space is pressed
   - else, if you can right arrow into the object move down into it
   - else if you can quick look the item, do that
   - finally, go to the 3rd pane.

Other definitions could be made if needed for other file types with the 
default behavior being show contents and the options above should cover 
most use cases.

It might sound a little confusing on paper but coming for Launchbar which 
has a similar behavior it actually feels *very *intuitive and definitely 
subscribes to the quicksilver philosophy :) I also created a GH issue which 
you can find below which also has some discussion:

https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/issues/925

Tony

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