The below solutions all require a few more keystrokes than Jon’s solution above. Thanks for the reply though.
On Friday, December 13, 2013 2:58:32 PM UTC+1, Rob McBroom wrote: > > On 12 Dec 2013, at 17:37, Jurgen Doreleijers wrote: > > Today I found out about the possibility to past text using a hot key which > is great. Given that I have about 100 phrases/actions in mind I’m running > out of hot keys. > > Would it be possible to use like a 2 or 3 character mnemonic for one of the > actions? > > There are a couple of possibilities. > > If you select a text file and hit → or /, each line will become an item > you can match by typing. So you could create a trigger for “phrases.txt ⇥ > Show Contents”, then you’d be able to search through them. > You could also just add a new “File & Folder Scanner” catalog entry that > points to phrases.txt, and enable “Include Contents: Text Lines”. That > will add the phrases directly to the top-level catalog. > > That only works if every chunk of text is a single line, though. > > Another option (that will work with multi-line text) is the Shelf plug-in. > If you add all of your phrases to the shelf, you can get to them many ways: > > - Call up “Shelf” and hit → or / > - Make a trigger for “Shelf ⇥ Show Contents” > - Show the Shelf in another window by hitting ⌥⌘S in Quicksilver. You > can keep this window open all the time, or attach it to a screen edge and > make it slide out when you mouse over to it. > > -- > 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
