On 19 Mar 2017, at 3:12, Robyn Raccoon wrote:
Is it then possible to set the default action, so that executing "show history / search" does the search on the history but "paste" is pre-selected instead of getting the popup?
You can always customize the order actions appear in by default under Preferences → General → Actions.
You can make sure Paste is higher on the list for text (plus whatever else you might find in your clipboard history), and some people do, but I think it’s a bad idea for at least two reasons:
1. This applies to *all* text you select in Quicksilver regardless of context. So Paste won’t just be the default when you’re browsing Clipboard history. It will be the default any time you have text selected. 2. The Paste action doesn’t just apply to text. It applies to *everything* you might select. So you’ll probably end up making it the default for almost everything in every context, which would be far worse than having to select it manually once in a while.
The general rule for ordering actions is to put the specific ones that only apply to one type (Open URL, for example) at the top because they won’t interfere with other types. Going along with that, the more promiscuous actions like “Paste” or “Select in Command Window” should be near the bottom so they don’t show up all the time.
Having Paste as the default for clipboard history is a common request and there are a couple of solutions I’ve thought about.
1. When defining a trigger that shows results, allow people to also define a temporary default action for those results. (Probably messy and hard to get right.) 2. Somehow identify things from the clipboard history so they can be treated as distinct from other text, files, etc. (Also messy.) 3. Add the Paste action as an option on the Touch Bar, so you could still have a sane default most of the time, but Paste is one tap away if needed.
I’m almost certainly going to do 3, but that doesn’t help enough people to call it “solved”. I probably won’t get to the other ideas any time soon, but it’s open source so anyone is welcome to take a stab.
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