That works, Jon, thank you. A good replacement for the older function that brought up a sheet (or pane) from the dict.org web site.
On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 3:10:00 PM UTC-7, Jon Stovell wrote: > > Just open QS's preferences and go to the Plugins pane. Click on Show All > in the sidebar, then scroll down to Services Menu Plugin, and click the > checkbox to install and activate it. > > This plugin will turn all available services in the Services Menu > <http://www.macworld.com/article/1163996/how_to_use_services_in_mac_os_x.html> > into > Quicksilver actions. Since one of OS X's built in services is "Look Up in > Dictionary", which looks up selected text in Dictionary.app, the plugin > will add it to the list of available actions in QS's second pane. Just use > that action on any text that you put into the first pane. All done. > > On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 9:30:14 PM UTC-7, DrFred wrote: >> >> That said, you might want to just install the Services plugin and then >> activate the Look up in Dictionary action. That'll open Dictionary.app and >> show you definitions there. In my experience, those results are often of >> better quality than the results from dict.org. >> >> I don't understand how to do this but no matter. I can just open >> Dictionary.app from QS and go from there. I liked the little sheet or pane >> and will learn to do without it. >> >>> >>>> -- 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/d/optout.
