Hi Rob --
Thanks for your help on this (and for your continuing work on QS). I
thought I'd write back with my solution.
I am using a combination of a customized "surfraw'" /bin/sh script and
applescript to give me back the functionality that I used to have.
On thing that is frustrating is that I've lost the "auto-history" function
that Web Search + "Search For ..." gave me. Whenever I used to invoke the
trigger, it would pre-populate the third pane. The way it works now when I
do a [SCRIPTNAME][PROCESS TEXT][<search terms>] trigger now, the last pane
[<search terms>] is blank.
Do you think that there's a hack to implement this in Applescript, or if
not, then perhaps a hack of using Web Search to invoke an applescript with
the constructed parms ("script name and *** parameters expanded") instead?
Thanks,
-Mike
On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 5:20:43 AM UTC-7, Rob McBroom wrote:
>
> On 9 Sep 2015, at 15:49, Mike Petonic wrote:
>
> I'd like to replicate that using the KeySearch extension of Safari's. For
> KeySearch, you just move the mouse (or hit Cmd-L) to get into the address
> bar, and then type the equivalent shortcut: "gi 49ers logo".
>
> For the life of me, I can't seem to have a trigger that will put the cursor
> in the third pane, and once the command executes, just enter the terms into
> the address bar.
>
> This might be possible with AppleScript, but probably isn’t necessary. I’m
> not sure if the extension you’re using makes KeySearch act like one of the
> built-in choices, but here’s what I’ve seen…
>
> I’ve got DuckDuckGo as the default in Safari. When I use that web search
> from Quicksilver (which is just https://duckduckgo.com/?q=***) to search
> for “cookie recipe” or something, that text appears in Safari’s address bar
> as if I had typed it there. So Safari is obviously examining the current
> page’s URL and doing some magic on it. Maybe the same is true for KeySearch?
>
> Why is entering the text in the address bar better than what you’ve been
> doing with ⇧⌘L?
>
> Also, if KeySearch can’t be made to act like a built-in search, note that
> DuckDuckGo
> has similar shortcuts <https://duckduckgo.com/bang>, like !i for Google
> Images and !w for Wikipedia.
>
> --
> Rob McBroom
> http://www.skurfer.com/
>
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