Design by contract; Quicksilver & plaintext

[Nathaniel Haas]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract

I brought up a few things without enough explication last night, but I
think this one idea in particular deserved a followup. This is what I
was talking about when I mentioned the Eiffel language.

Also, I flaked out on showing the plain text file manipulation stuff
in Quicksilver. It does a lovely job of pre/appending your favorite
text files with an awareness of what \n stuff was already going on. I
use it daily for adding to my "someday" lists like "bands to peruse
when emusic reups" or "interesting ideas for the next album".

Back to the rspec fields...
Nathaniel

[Eric Gruber]

I've used it since Tuesday, and still don't see it much more as an app
launcher for me. Looks like I'll be reading more documentation to see
how to get it to work with how I work.

Biggest frustration: Tried using it to open a pdf by typing in the
title, and it doesn't even find it.

Not giving up, though. Your presentation was good enough to make me
press on.

Eric

[Nathaniel Haas]

Yeah, I could have emphasized that Quicksilver will not replace Google
Desktop or Spotlight for finding files by content more. (I am assuming
by pdf title, you meant text within a pdf and not its filename.)

However, Quicksilver can find files by filenames, provided that the
file is in the Catalog. Below are links to screencaps of my config
that supplement the online tutorials and documentation.

http://natehaas.com/pub/Fullscreen-20090529-132155.png
http://natehaas.com/pub/Fullscreen-20090529-132819.png

And with all this in mind, some kludgy solutions to your problem might include:
Rename the pdf file to its title, presuming the title is malleable.
Make an alias of the pdf with desirable keywords (viz. title) as its filename.
Search for the title using an action from the Spotlight plugin.

Nathaniel