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10.5: Build your own keyboard-based app launcher
Authored by: tx.logic on Apr 29, '08 10:10:31AM

I have to say this is a lot more work, and a lot less efficient, than using Quicksilver or Launchbar, both of which are super fast ways to start and switch between apps. Notably, the Spotlight solution doesn't recognize natural abbreviations. For example, to start (or switch to a running copy of) Aquamacs Emacs, you just hit Cmd-<Space> to bring up your QS or LB window and type "ae" and you will be immediately presented with the app in question. (The first time you do this, Aquamacs Emacs may not be the first choice that comes up, but once you select it, both QS and LB remember that appbreviation in the future.) Given the many other advantages of these great utilities, I really don't see the motivation here.



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