muCommander and Quicksilver working together

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muCommander and Quicksilver working together

Postby rediah » Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:01 am

I have recently started using muCommander on my Mac, a recent migrant
to Macs from Windows. I like it compared to the Finder. I have made good progress
getting muCommander and Quicksilver hooked together, so I can pass on a
particular file / folder I am on in mC to QS. The following couple of
requests come from that.

QS provides a command line plugin with which you can do the following:
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   qs $file

to pass on a $file in a shell to QS. I have used that functionality to
pass on the current file from mC to QS.

First, I defined the following in commands.xml
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    <command alias="Quicksilver" value="/usr/bin/qs $f"/>

This works fine through the "Open with" menu for both files and folder.
Happy to see this working. I wanted to make this workflow simpler with
the use of a keyboard shortcut. As far as I can tell, I can only define
it for one of the builtin commands, such as Reveal in Finder, etc. So I
defined the following:

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    <command alias="openFM" value="/usr/bin/qs $f" type="system" display="Quicksilver"/>

I expected this to behave the same way as above, but in this case QS always
shows the parent directory of the file (or folder) I am on in mC!!

So the questions / requests are:

1. Why the discrepancy between a regular command and the openFM system command.
2. Can I create an additional command that I can code a kbd shortcut for, instead
of using openFM. I'd rather leave it for "reveal in Finder" as originally
intended.

Thanks.
rediah
 
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