I don't see what this is supposed to do. I have made and saved the script, enabled Command Line tool plugin, restarted QS... but when I select text, then bring up "SQC" and hit enter, nothing happens. QS just locks up.
On Sep 1, 5:53 pm, Sesquipedalian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ask and ye shall receive! > > Save this into ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions with > the name Search Quicksilver Catalog.scpt > > You will need to install the Command Line Tool plugin in order to make > this work. > > using terms from application "Quicksilver" > on process text thetext > do shell script "echo | qs" > tell application "System Events" to keystroke thetext > end process text > end using terms from > > On Sep 1, 9:43 am, Osbert Lancaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Howard > > > Thanks - nice to know it's not possible. I can stop trying to work it > > out! > > > Agreed typing directly in QS might well be the way, but I when I'm > > using my gtd app I tend to be in mouse mode, rather than keyboard > > mode, so a double click to select a word and then a simple keyboard > > command would be cool. > > > Ah well. > > > On 1 Sep 2008, at 14:11, Howard Melman wrote: > > > > I don't know of a way to do this. It sounds useful, though thinking > > > it through a little, for something short like "jim" I think I'd find > > > it easier to just type it into QS rather than selecting the text > > > (probably with a mouse). For something longer, perhaps the Spotlight > > > in Command action is what you're looking for. It needs the spotlight > > > plugin and searches file contents rather than using QS's index, but > > > the results show in QS. > > > > Howard > > > > On Sep 1, 2008, at 5:59 AM, trebso wrote: > > > >> I can select text, and invoke QS, type Cmd-G, tab to next pane - and > > >> QS offers me a range of actions. > > > >> But - it doesn't offer me the action I actually need! > > > >> What I want is for QS to search for that selected text, in the same > > >> way is searches if I type. > > > >> Specifically, what I want to do, is to select a name in one app, eg > > >> 'jim' and then run QS to find Jim in AddressBook. However, starting > > >> with selected text QS seems to just offer me actions like 'large > > >> text', 'show contents' etc. > > > >> Am I missing a vital step?
