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QS was seriously broken for a long time. I understand someone else finally picked it up and started fixing the bugs, but I don't know why anyone actually kept w
by eridius 10y ago
QS was seriously broken for a long time. I understand someone else finally picked it up and started fixing the bugs, but I don't know why anyone actually kept with QS during the long broken period.
Even back when QS was under active development by the original author, it was still pretty buggy. I actually had a separate keyboard shortcuts app running in the background with a single shortcut which would relaunch QS for those times when QS decided to crash.
I am curious what you relied on QS for that Alfred can't do. Everything I remember doing with QS is doable with Alfred.
- cwp 10y agoThe great thing about Quicksilver is the grammar - it's actually object, verb, indirect object. That lets you do things like <file>, <email to>, <person>. Alfred didn't have that basic structure when I tried it. I'm sure it's quite powerful, probably more so than QS given the latter's long stagnation. But I never bothered to figure out how to use Alfred effectively because QS is so easy and works great. There were a couple of bugs that were annoying for a while, but they've been fixed. Kakoune doesn't mention the "indirect object" part of the grammar, but apparently it'll prompt for more information when needed, so it's pretty close.
- eridius 10y agoAlfred does use that structure, and as far as I remember, it always has. I can indeed do <file>, <email to>, <person> in Alfred (though my most common object, verb, indirect object sequence is <file>, <open in>, <app>).