Why not use the Prepend Text... and Prepend To... actions included in the
Text Manipulation plugin?
*To prepend a string or URL*
Just paste the string into the first pane, select Prepend To... in the
second, and select the file in the third.
*To prepend the date*
First, make the following trigger in Quicksilver:
date -j "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" (Run Command in Shell)
That will get you the current date as a string of text in Quicksilver's
first pane.
Now, run the trigger, and then select Prepend To... in the second pane and
your file in the third pane. All done. Plus, you now also have a trigger
available to get the current date as a string for any other purposes you
might have for that. :)
Note: the %H above will give you the hour in 24 hour format. If you want 12
hour format, change it to %I and add a %p to the end to get an AM or PM
indicator. If you want to learn more about your formatting options, run man
date in Terminal.
On Sunday, August 18, 2013 4:04:54 PM UTC-4, Andrea Ghensi wrote:
>
> Hi all, I'm trying to write an applescript action for quicksilver that
> lets me prepend a text into a text file (my journal, saved in the same
> folder of my nvAlt notes). I also add the current date and time before the
> text (or URL) of the first pane. I put up the script copying from various
> sources, here you are:
>
> set theFile to "Path:To:File.txt"
>
>
> on format_date() --it gives me the date in YYYY.mm.dd HH:MM format
> set {year:y, month:m, day:d} to current date
> tell ((y * 10000 + m * 100 + d) as string) & " " & time string of (current
> date) to text 1 thru 4 & "." & text 5 thru 6 & "." & text 7 thru 14
> end format_date
>
>
> using terms from application "Quicksilver"
> on get direct types
> return {"Apple URL pasteboard type", "NSStringPboardType"}
> end get direct types
>
> on process text journalentry
> try
> set N to open for access theFile with write permission
> get eof N
> if result > 0 then
> set theText to read N
> else
> set theText to ""
> end if
> set eof N to 0
> write "###" & format_date() & journalentry & return & return & theText
> to N
> close access N
> end try
> end process text
> end using terms from
>
> It works outside of quicksilver (removing the quicksilver related lines
> and setting the variable journalentry to some text), but I cannot make it
> work with QS.
> Do you have any idea why? or do you know how I can debug this thing?
> Thanks for your attention!
> Cheers from Italy
>
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