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10.4: Speed up Spotlight searches via paste
Authored by: dave1212 on Jul 05, '05 02:12:16AM

I like Butler's solution; to give the option to disallow one-character searches.

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10.4: Speed up Spotlight searches via paste
Authored by: matthewpack on Apr 02, '06 06:40:28AM

if you have launchbar 4 installed check out these instructions - no need to mess around with apple scripts and one letter searches

Triggering Spotlight Searches from LaunchBar
A new Search in Spotlight command passes search requests to the Spotlight window.
Can by invoked by typing Command-F in LaunchBar or with a dedicated, system wide keyboard shortcut that can be configured in the Keyboard Shortcuts pane of LaunchBar preferences (default is Command-Option-Control-Space). Note: It's planned to make this shortcut more customizable in a future version.
Smart preprocessing: No need to type clumsy search strings like "date:today kind:todo". Just type "today todo", "folder backup", "url apple", or "pref tcp" and LaunchBar automatically transforms these search requests into the correct Spotlight syntax.
To search literally instead, just put the search string in quotes.
Recognizes alternative kind specifiers such as picture, url, ical, ... instead of image, bookmark, event, ... so entering "picture flower" or "ical today" will deliver proper search results.



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