The new Spotlight plugin looks like it'll be awesome. One suggestion: Add a "Spotlight Filenames" actions that searches the whole drive, but by filename, with the pane 1 text. So then, OP, your workflow to find anything would be <invoke>.(term)<tab>spf<enter>.
Actually, with the Spotlight plugin, it makes sense to me to think of it in terms of 3 different pairs of possibilities, which combine then to produce 8 different actions. They are: * Where: whole drive or Pane 1 folder (term in Pane 3)? * What: filenames or contents? * Output: QS or Finder window? (I don't understand the difference between "Show Spotlight Results in Finder" and "Spotlight in Window") To make this even easier I made an issue on GitHub (#945) suggesting some way to have triggers with an action but no object (thus asking the user to fill it in). So then you could have something bound to "User Input" (a nonexistent proxy object)->"Get Spotlight Results" and have single-shortcut access to a pseudo-Spotlight that dumps results right into QS. Not sure if this is worth the trouble to implement, although I _do_ see other cases where it'd be useful. On Saturday, June 16, 2012 10:14:06 PM UTC-4, Rob McBroom wrote: > > On Jun 16, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Kliter Semson wrote: > > > Earlier I read in a forum that changing the catalog depth to "infinity" > would accomplish this but couldn't see it listed anywhere in preferences. > > To answer your question, you’d go to the Catalog section of the > Preferences and add a new “File & Folder Scanner” entry. The info panel > that comes up allows you to set parameters, including the scan depth. You > can also view the scan depth for existing presets in the catalog, but you > can’t change them. To change the depth of a built-in entry, go to its > Attributes tab and copy it, disable the original and change the settings > for the copy (which you'll find under the Custom section). > > Having said that… you almost never want infinity and the reasons have been > pretty well covered. Maybe you just want to increase the depth for > `~/Documents` by 1 or 2 or something, which should be fine. > > > Has anyone ever tried to set QS to search for everything on their hard > drive - buried folders, hidden folders, system protected files etc etc > > As others have said, yes and anyone who’s tried it has regretted it. :-) > Just tell Quicksilver about the stuff you want to get to frequently. If you > find something is missing, add a Custom entry for it. The previously > mentioned updated Spotlight plug-in will allow for very powerful > customization, but often all you need are a couple of additional File & > Folder Scanner entries. > > **Most importantly**: I think a lot of users get hung up on wanting to > index too much because they don’t realize you can get to pretty much > everything, even if it’s not directly available in your catalog. Once a > folder is selected, you can navigate into it using / or →, then continue > searching within the folder and optionally drill down even further using /. > So, just add a few important top-level folders to your catalog and from > there, you can reach down to the rest. > > Other tips: > > * ⌥/ will make hidden files appear when you go into the folder. > * You can get to the top level of your drive by holding down / for half > a second or so. > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Quicksilver group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en
