Great, an even better solution!

On 9 August 2012 21:07, Aaron Stacy <[email protected]> wrote:

> even better, just stumbled across this:
>
>     http://wp.anoop.net/2011/04/creating-custom-actions-in-quicksilver/
>
> turns out i can just put my *.rb script in '~/Library/Application
> Support/Quicksilver/Actions' and use `ARGV[0]` instead of `ARGF.read`.
>
> thanks again!
>
> On Aug 9, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Patrick Robertson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Use
>
> "on process text reminder" in your AppleScript
>
> See the examples on the page I sent you, for example
> http://qsapp.com/wiki/SuperTweet_(AppleScript)
>
> On 9 August 2012 20:46, Aaron Stacy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> sounds like this might work -- but how do i get the input in my
>> applescript?  i.e., i've got the following `make_reminder.scpt`:
>>
>>     do shell script "echo '" & input & "' |
>> /Users/astacy/code/reminders/make_reminder.rb"
>>
>> how do i set the 'input' variable to the contents of the Quicksilver text
>> entry?
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> On Aug 9, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Patrick Robertson <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I'd suggest putting this script inside an AppleScript, then placing the
>> AppleScript inside
>>
>> ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions
>>
>>
>> See http://qsapp.com/wiki/AppleScripts#Pane_2_.28Action.29_AppleScriptsfor 
>> more info on how you might do this. Shouldn't be too difficult.
>>
>> On 9 August 2012 20:26, aaronj1335 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> i've got a sick little ruby script that allows you to make reminders
>>> from the command line like so:
>>>
>>>  $ echo 'party up this friday at 9' | make_reminder.rb
>>>
>>> (it uses chronic <https://github.com/mojombo/chronic/> to set the due
>>> date and rb-appscript <http://appscript.sourceforge.net/rb-appscript/>to 
>>> create the reminder).
>>>
>>> i'd like to be able to open the bezel, type "." to enable text entry,
>>> and enter the event text ("party up this friday at 9" in this case), and
>>> have a 'create reminder' action show up in the right-hand pane.  the
>>> 'create reminder' action would essentially pass the text of the left-hand
>>> pane into stdin of `make_reminder.rb`.
>>>
>>> how can i do this?
>>>
>>> i know that i can create a service for all apps in automator which does
>>> this (passes the selected text into my `make_reminder.rb` script), and that
>>> works, but i can't get the service to show up in my actions (even though i
>>> can see it when i go to Quicksilver -> Preferences -> Preferences ->
>>> Actions -> Filter by Plugin -> Services Menu Plugin).
>>>
>>> how can i use the text-entry-mode text as input for my
>>> `make_reminder.rb` script?
>>>
>>> thanks!!!
>>>
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