Select and Go Surfing / Emailing (Quicksilver)
Since I can’t find any built in shortcuts on my Mac OS X to do the select text and go surfing, so I decided to write a little AppleScript to do that. This trick saves me from selecting url (which is not clickable of course), copying to the clipboard, opening the Safari, pasting the clipboard to the address bar and pressing the enter button.
You can assign the using Quicksilver. (If you find a way to trigger Applescript using the built in Mac OS X features, please let me know.)
I assigned my trigger to Option + Shift + S, you can do whatever you want. The script has been tested on MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz with Snow Leopard. If you have a very old machine, you migh want to adjust the delay setting. Double click on the script to adjust the delay setting to a longer time.
Grab it here, and drag it to your ~/Library/Scrips or ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions or anywhere you want.
Here is a short demonstration how to use it
- Select any URL on any application. (In this demo, I select appledoes.com from terminal.app)
- Trigger the script. (By pressing my keystroke Opt + Shift + S) That’s it.
Enjoy
Updated: The script can now handle the email address as well, so it will open your Mail.app and insert the recipient address automatically.
Great tips! Been looking for this. Thanks
Thanks Max. Glad to hear that
I’m confused. Can you explain what settings you’re supposed to use in Quicksilver. Mine isn’t working, and these are my settings:
http://skitch.com/evangoldin/nwtyc/system
Hi Evan,
The script is supposed to work with Safari by default. You can change it by opening the script using AppleScript editor.app and change [tell process "Safari"] to [tell process "Firefox"] if you use Firefox.
I am using B54 Quicksilver by the way and your setting looks good.
Make sure it’s enabled in all application: http://jejot.com/vHPuXp and Hotkeys Triggers, Extra scripts plugins are installed