On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 6:16:31 AM UTC-7 Rob McBroom wrote: > 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.) > > -- > Rob McBroom >
Thanks for the detailed answer. For creating a trigger it was a bit challenging to get the Clipboard Contents item to show up as well, but it eventually did, and I am able to create the trigger. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/blacktree-quicksilver/33fbe199-4315-46cd-99b6-d7f1a8ff1cecn%40googlegroups.com.
