On 18 Mar 2021, at 12:41, ka-foo wrote:
I am using keyword search on some sites using the "Search For" action.
Almost all the time the text I want to search is in the clipboard. How
can
I make quicksilver do the search with the text from the clipboard? I
can
type the text but since it's already in the clipboard, I'd rather not
type.
There are several things to know that might make this easier.
First, Quicksilver uses the system’s Find Pasteboard, so whatever you
search for in other (correctly written) applications will automatically
show up as the search term in Quicksilver.
This also means that when you select text, you can hit ⌘C to put it on
the regular pasteboard, but you can also hit ⌘E to put it on the Find
Pasteboard. If you do that, the term will automatically be there the
next time you use the **Search For…** action.
There are tons of options for when you already have something in the
regular pasteboard, though.
The most obvious is just to hit ⌘V in the 3rd pane when using **Search
For…**. If you have the Spacebar behavior preference set to
“Smart” (recommended) or “Jump to Argument Field”, you can just
select a search engine in the first pane, then hit Space to jump to the
third. To search for the current clipboard contents using DuckDuckGo, I
just have to type
G Space ⌘V ↩
You should also be aware that the **Search For…** action is
reversible. Instead of `Search Engine ⇥ Search For… ⇥ term` you
can do `term ⇥ Find With… ⇥ Search Engine`. So, you could call up
Quicksilver, hit ⌘V to put the text in the first pane, then select the
**Find With…** action. The search engines are sorted by how often you
use them, so your favorite should be the default.
Finally, if you do this regularly, you could just create a trigger for
`Clipboard Contents ⇥ Find With… ⇥ Search Engine`. (This will be a
little tricky since the **Find With…** action won’t appear for the
Clipboard Contents item. Just enter some text in the 1st pane, select
**Find With…** in the 2nd pane and copy it with ⌘C. Then, go create
the trigger by putting Clipboard Contents in the 1st pane, go to the 2nd
pane and paste the action with ⌘V, then select a search engine in the
third pane.)
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Rob McBroom
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