That was quick! Thanks - looking forward to checking them all out.

How do you set a trigger for Clipboard->Show contents? The only way I know of getting to the QS clipboard is by Command-L with QS in the front, so I don’t know how to find it in the trigger prefs. Any suggestions?

Charles:

You can replicate anything in “Triggers” that you can do in “regular” Quicksilver. It’s just a way to make a custom command for any Quicksilver “sentence.”

After you go to “Preferences > Triggers” and click the “+” you can create whatever QS functionality you want, just like you were in the regular panes; when you’re done, hit Save, then doubleclick the Key command column on the right and add whatever you like—that’s a universal key binding that should work anywhere on the Mac.

The triggers are really a very powerful and under-used piece of Quicksilver—but just wait til you see what’s coming soon. Whole other level :)

I am using B42, and I still can’t get append to show up, either when I use the “.” followed by text and then type “app” in the second pane. Am I missing some obvious setup thing?

I get the concept of triggers, and have several mapped; it’s the clipboard specifically that I can’t add to the triggers list.

Thanks for the help anyway, though…

Charles: glad it’s not just me - I can’t work it out either.

Append functionality requires three things that I know of:

• Run in advanced mode (“Preferences > Application > Enable Advanced Features > Beta”)
• Install the “Text Manipulation Actions” Plug-in (“Preferences > Plug-ins” and choose “All Plug-ins” from the pulldown)
• Make sure you’re trying to append to a text file that ends with “.txt”

Just in general, almost everything I post here relies on that beta mode and a metric assload of plugins. Just grab them all—there’s really no hit to performance that I’m aware of.

Let me know if that fixed it or not.

Brilliant clipboard trigger. All hale the king!

I still don’t get the difference between the Shelf and Clipboard. And what is the difference between the Clipboard Storage and History? There doesn’t seem to be a definitive guide to these features. Any ideas?

@charles: Do you have the “Clipboard Module” plug-in installed?

Simon, I think these are pretty close as definitions.

• Shelf: a non-volatile relatively permanent location for stuff you use a lot, visible as a window, if you like that kind of thing, but much more useful as just another catalog you access
• Clipboard: generic name for the invisible buffer where stuff goes when you select and hit “Copy”
• Clipboard contents: Last thing you copied
• Clipboard history: The last n things you copied (with n being “250” in my case)

Note that clipboard history is persistent—even if you reboot, QS remembers for you. Really good to have and to know about.

Ahh Master, all is understood now. I now use my Shelf for permanent stuff such as my email for pasting on and off. I use the Clipboard for more volatile info.

BTW I have just happened upon a great list of Commands for QS… See all QS keyboard Commands

I don;t know why these aren’t made more prominent as they underpin the whole concept of quick keyboard navigation using QS.

Charles,

To access Clipboard History, you must have the Shelf Module installed and activated. I was having the same problem.

The Transmit Favorites plugin is broken in the newest versions of Transmit (3.2) The only thing you can do is auto-update files if you have a Favorite with both the local and remote sites setup.

Filename in local site…

Open With…

Transmit

This will initiate an upload process, although there seem to be problems with multiple file selections.

Click here for the QS forums topic.

As Sean said, in order to set the clipboard as a trigger target, you need both the clipboard and the shelf plugin installed. Thanks!

Where did you get that Keychain module? It’s not listed at http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/plugins.php?feature=0

Merlin, you saved my life. I had reinstalled QS on my clean Tiger install and couldn’t find the Append action… until you mentioned the Text Manipulation Actions” plug-in. Yay!

I’m using b36 in Panther, and the append trigger won’t work for me—I suspect it’s because normally you enter the text first, then “append”, then the target file. But your instructions for making the trigger are the other way around (filename first)—does b40+ support this? The “manual” form of append/prepend works fine for me, it’s just the trigger I can’t seem to get working.

MH- I don’t know if that particular flavor of the trick will work on the pre-Tiger version (I’m not sure when Triggers went in to the non-beta release).

Basic appending, which has been possible since the beginning, should still work fine—and I think you can reverse the “sentence” in the Panther version. Try:

<name of file> -> Append Text… -> [variable input]

as well as

[variable input] -> Append To… -> <name of file>

Those both work for you?

Nope, Append/Prepend only appear when I do the text first. If I choose the file first, those options don’t appear. I guess it’s Tiger-only.

I dunno why, but I can’t get “Put on Shelf” to show up at all. Works fine at work where I’m using the latest (lastest) version for 10.3 but I’m a running the latest one for Tiger at home on my powerbook and the “put on shelf” command just ain’t showin’ up. I’ve rebooted, restarted quicksilver, reinstalled the shelf plug in but ain’t nothing happenin’. Any ideas anyone?

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