pasting filename into search bar gives no results!
Alexis Austin
Rob McBroom
On 26 Aug 2019, at 19:08, Alexis Austin wrote:
If I type a file name manually into quicksilver, I get a list of matching
files
If I paste the file name into quicksilver, it gives no matches (screenshot
attached)
I see what you’re trying to do, but as you’ve discovered, it won’t work. When you paste something, Quicksilver takes it literally and tries to turn whatever you asked into something useful.
If you copy Safari in Finder for example, then paste into Quicksilver, Safari will appear so you can launch it, hide it, toggle it, etc. That might seem obvious, but it will do something similar with text. If you copy and paste the text /Applications/Safari.app and paste it into Quicksilver, it will realize this is a path to something on your system and present you with that thing instead of showing the original text (or using it as a search term).
It will also detect URLs and a few other things. If the text isn’t recognized as anything special, it will show in its original form with the clipping icon like your screenshot.
What you want could be accomplished with a new action like “Use as Search Term” or maybe a new preference that falls back to searching if the pasted string doesn’t look like anything. I’d recommend creating a feature request in GitHub for that.
https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/issues
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Rob McBroom