I would love to have it the other way around: that Alfred can browse a Pharo 
image :)

Ben

On 25 Mar 2014, at 14:41, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote:

> Excellent!
> 
> This goes in the direction of Alfred or Quicksilver. I worked on a design (no 
> implementation yet) that goes in the same direction. I think we definitely 
> need to get more in this direction, and that we should make it easy for 
> people to hook their own matchers. For example, when I start something with / 
> or ./ I would like to inspect the file with that name.
> 
> Doru
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
> I had this idea:
> 
> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/13128/Use-Spotlight-to-quickly-evaluate-and-inspect-short-expressions
> 
> now you can do
> 
> <shift-Enter>:42<Enter>
> 
> to inspect the magic number 42
> 
> <shift-Enter>:1500*1.25<Enter>
> 
> to quickly compute your 25% raise
> 
> <shift-Enter>:Float pi<Enter>
> 
> to see how many decimals you still remember
> 
> <shift-Enter>:ZnClient new get: 'http://zn.stfx.eu/zn/small.html'<Enter>
> 
> and so on.
> 
> The interaction with the completion menu is not 100% perfect, but pressing 
> <Space> at the end before <Enter> solves that.
> 
> Feedback ?
> 
> Sven
> 
> PS: I know that many Smalltalk greybeards type everywhere to the same effect, 
> and that is cool to, but it leaves around dirty windows. Opening a workspace 
> for a single expression often is overkill. This feature is totally keyboard 
> driven and very clean.
> 
> PS2: Yes it resembles Emacs' M-: (evaluate-expression), but Pharo is much 
> cooler, right ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> "Every thing has its own flow"

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