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10.5: Use Spotlight's calculations with Quick Look
Authored by: Mac Berry on Nov 28, '07 03:21:29AM

Thanks!

Actually, spotlight is even cleverer than you suggest (only calculating on enter). It gives you a running total, so if you type 1+2 you see 1+2=3 in the results, but if you continue typing and add *, the results disappear as it thinks "hmm, nope, he wasn't ready for that total", followed by 3 which then shows "1+2*3=7.

It has to work like that, because people are not necessarily used to hitting enter before getting results in spotlight. It's a very clever, and totally correct, way of handling it.



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