Merlin — I’m pretty sure you also need to ‘Enable advanced features’ in Quicksilver’s preferences as well; ‘Primer’ or ‘Bezel’ alone doesn’t seem to do it…

Great catch, Liam. I’m sure you’re right—I edited the post.

I should probably always begin every QS post with a link to this. My QS setup is so tricked-out, and I always forget most people’s are not.

Very cool, but you could also do this stuff from the command line. Depending on exactly what it was that you were doing, it could even be lots easier on the command line.

But I like QuickSilver for pretty much just that reason — it’s like a command line without a Terminal.

This trick also seems to work with other command interfaces. For example, I use the Menu interface and the ‘,’ command worked; it just doesn’t look as pretty as Bezel or Primer.

Also, QS just gets cooler and cooler. Makes me wonder what else is lurking in there …

I’m using the Flashlight interface and it didn’t work. Dagnabbit. Once I chose Bezel, it worked like a charm.

I’d really like it to work with Flashlight, since it’s a nice companion to the Spotlight and whatnot.

This seems to be dependent on the OSX/QS version. Beta 36 under OSX 10.3 can do the Comma trick with the Flashlight interface, while Beta 42 under Tiger won’t.

@Lasar: Got to admit, that’s a bit odd.

Just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work. I am a newbie at this Quicksilver thing, but I am already hooked. Maybe there is a methadone program I can get on?

Probably worth noting a technique that I find easier, if not quicker and works with ALL of the interface styles.

Selecting a bunch of files (most quickly done using cmd-click to select non-sequencial files) and then invoking quicksilver and hitting cmd-g will allow you to work with the current selection =)

Hope this helps someone

Thanks for sharing…

I am one of those who did not know, and I knew there had to be away because it is easy to select all, but I couldn’t figure out how to be selective.

Nate

This is genius. Seriously. I’ve used Quicksilver for a couple of months and it instantly became a habit, but I feel that there’s still a lot of features I’m missing out on. Thanks for pointing this one out! Will you be posting on how to use the shelf, too (or have you already done so, and I missed it)?

One not so fantastic bug with this is that if you copy files with this method and then delete or move them before using QS again, you get error messages. Thoughts?

ES

works great for an impromptu slideshow as well… just select a number of images from wherever they are on your system and choose the “slideshow” action.