unable to use my quicksilver on Mac OS High Sierra

[Bettina Devin]

I MISS MY OLD SHORTCUTS!  Anyone out there able to help?  For example:  I used to do "Ctrl/Space fa" to get to my facebook page.  I don't seem to be able to reprogram/train the updated Quicksilver with all my old shortcuts.  My Mac tech tells me I should phrase it this way:  " I want to create a short-cut w/o any modifier keys".  Anyone walk me through the steps?  Not sure if the new Mac OS supports this?  Thanks in advance for your help!

[Rob McBroom]

That’s a simple enough request and should be no problem, even under
High Sierra.

First, make sure you have the latest version of Quicksilver from
https://qsapp.com/download.php.

Assuming this is a fresh installation and Quicksilver hasn’t been
configured or learned any shortcuts from you…

First, you need to get the things you care about into Quicksilver. For
something like a website, it’s usually as simple as going to
Quicksilver’s preferences under Plugins and installing the one for
your browser. (This should add your bookmarks in that browser to QS, so
it will obviously only work if you’ve bookmarked the site at some
point.)

Next, you need to teach it that “fa” means “Facebook”. If you
hit Ctrl-Space and type “fa”, then scroll down until you see your
Facebook bookmark, then hit Return, Quicksilver should learn you want to
use that abbreviation for that bookmark. You should only have to do that
once or twice before Facebook becomes the first result every time you
type that abbreviation. (There are ways to speed up this process, but
they usually aren’t necessary and this message is long enough as it
is.)

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Rob McBroom
http://www.skurfer.com/

[Etienne Samson]

> Next, you need to teach it that “fa” means “Facebook”. If you hit Ctrl-Space and type “fa”, then scroll down until you see your Facebook bookmark, then hit Return, Quicksilver should learn you want to use that abbreviation for that bookmark.

Alternatively, you can also use the "Assign abbreviation" action to manually set what QS would recognize as the "canonical" abbreviation for something, which completely bypasses the learning process. So in that case, you would select your Facebook object in the first pane, find "Assign abbreviation" in the second pane, and type "fa" as text in the third pane. This beats having to scroll down a hundred of results in the 1st pane IMHO ;-).

Regards,
Etienne Samson
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