On 17 Jan 2023, at 23:31, James McLean wrote:
I know that a big part of the power of Quicksilver is that while
looking
for something, the letters you type don't need to be consecutive in
the
target. However, sometimes I know a set of consecutive letters in my
target, and Quicksilver can't find what I want because it doesn't know
that. At least, the target I want must be somewhere in the results,
but it
is WAAAY too much hassle to look through the results.
Is there a way to tell Quicksilver that for the current search, the
letters
typed should be consecutive? (I don't want to do this for every
invocation.)
It’s possible to write different plug-ins to customize the way strings
are matched, but that’s pretty heavy handed and unlikely to happen.
Personally, I prefer the TextStart Ranker plug-in which places more
weight on letters at the beginning of words and capital letters. It
might be worth a look. (If you install it, be sure to enable it under
Preferences → Handlers.)
Either way though, Quicksilver learns what you’re after very fast.
What I do in a situation where my search has too many results is just
type more characters to narrow it down (even if it’s more than I would
normally be willing to type), then run whatever action on the thing I
was looking for.
Simply “using” the located item in this way once or twice causes it
to be ranked higher in the results in the future. So there’s a good
chance that the next time you type whatever small number of characters
come natural to you, that item will be higher if not the top result.
If you would like to short-circuit this learning process, there’s also
the **Assign Abbreviation…** action.
1. Search for and select the desired item
2. ⇥ to the second pane and select **Assign Abbreviation…**
3. ⇥ to the third and and type what you want to use to find that
item
4. Hit ↩
--
Rob McBroom
--
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/6B28EC4F-89F7-4D11-A285-8D264A0E2424%40skurfer.com.
