On Mar 4, 2013, at 11:54 PM, Tony <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any way to setup this up as a trigger. For example: > > - select a folder in the first pane > - press trigger hotkey > - automatically moves you to the last column > - input filename and hit enter > - display search results > > I tried using the Current Selection and Quicksilver Selection proxy objects > with no luck?
I would think Quicksilver Selection would be what you want, with “nothing” in the third pane. That is, hit ⌘X there when creating the trigger. But there’s already a way to quickly select an action with a keystroke. If you train QS to bring up “Spotlight Filenames Matching…” by default for a single letter, like S, then you could select that action any time by hitting ⇧⌘S from the first pane. Then ↩ would select the text in the third pane. But I just tried it and that action seems to crash Quicksilver, so maybe wait on that. :-) > Btw, +100 to seeing the results appear as they come in as you suggested. Pie in the sky. It wouldn’t be that hard from the plug-in’s point of view, since that’s how Spotlight wants to do things anyway, but the interfaces in Quicksilver aren’t set up for that kind of thing, so there would have to be some fundamental changes in the app itself. > Tbh i am somewhat surprised that the spotlight functionality is so clunky Some of that is my fault. First, I had no business messing with that plug-in. Someone with more experience needs to look at it. Any volunteers? Second, I really only care about the ability to add files to the catalog based on Spotlight query instead of filesystem location. The actions never seemed that useful to me (though I did a fair amount of work to get the delayed results working correctly). I gave them a couple of quick tests, but never use them in real life. On the other hand, the plug-in wouldn’t work at all if it weren’t for me, so I’m not beating myself up too much. > given the power and potential it has and the fact that QS doesn't have an > automatic indexer similar to other launchers. What do you mean by “automatic indexer”? Also, I’m not familiar with this term “other launchers”. ;-) -- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
