I agree that this is something that needs to be better documented. There's a brief mention of it in the user tutorial: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Latest_Ubiquity_User_Tutorial#Doing_Commands_on_Selections
If you (or anyone else!) would like to contribute to the documentation here, feel free to edit that page directly, or post on the group here. - Blair On 6/02/2009 4:37 AM, Charlie wrote: > if you check modules/parser/locale_en.js, and you will see: > > EnParser.PRONOUNS = ["this", "that", "it", "selection", "him", "her", > "them"]; > > So these should be the magic words. If you select a possible name, > then "him" etc. will take effect. Usually only the 1st 4 words do the > magic. I haven't read the whole parser code to understand the magic, > but from observation, I don't think there are any significant > difference between the 1st 4 words, except they will have precedence > over each other in the above order, and the magic will only happen > once. So if you have two "this" in the input, only the 1st will take > effect. > > And I feel there is too much logic here, once you understand what you > are doing, the magic seems ok, but for first time user, this is not > friendly or it needs instruction. > > > Charlie > > > On Feb 5, 6:44 am, psargaco<[email protected]> wrote: >> Charlie, I've been looking for an article on the use of the magic >> words you mentioned (this, it, that). Can't seem to find anything >> relevant. What's the difference between them? >> >> On Feb 5, 1:24 am, Charlie<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I don't think 'this' is replaced by the url of the page but your >>> selection on the page. There are other magic key words like "it", >>> "that", and "this" takes precedence over "that" then over "it". I am >>> struggling with this function actually. >>> With that said, if you want to replace "this" or "it" etc. with the >>> url, you can highlight the url in address bar first then activate >>> ubiquity. >>> HTH >>> Charlie >>> On Feb 4, 7:17 pm, Spoofy<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Commands that make use of the THIS keyword dont work for me, or work >>>> intermittently (which is much worse than not at all). >>>> Take for example: >>>> twitter everyone look at this >>>> should show a list of options, some of which *should* replace the word >>>> 'this' with the url of the page. However its recently completely >>>> stopped doing that, or at least doing that so rarely that I dont >>>> bother anymore. >>>> without this command/shortcut I find ubiquity far less useful, to the >>>> point where I dont want/need it at all. >>>> Has anyone else experienced this, do you know how to fix it? >>>> I'm using Firefox 3.x, in Vista 64bit > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
