Quicksilver's "Comma Trick"

Quicksilver is the graphical evolution of the command line. It is a very revolutionary piece of software. However, I fear that at some point the complexity of the things you can do with Quicksilver will become a barrier to its adoption and it will be pressed into relative newbie obscurity, hiding out with the likes of Terminal.app and the NetInfo Database Manager. Of course it's a wonderful application, but as it develops the userbase will become the UNIX comman d shell nerds of old -- they will be the only ones who can remember all the esoteric ber-micro Quicksilver keystrokes needed to actually save any time with it.

After all, I can find multiple files on the filesystem and E-Mail them to a group of my contacts using the command line in about the same time it would take me to do it using Quicksilver, but is it a hot timesaving tip? Ten years ago maybe.

Yea, I do this to launch multiple apps on booting my Mac

(e.g. s, m, p, ill =Safari, Mail, Photoshop & Illustrator)

Very handy :)

Crap! Thanks for this tip. Is it possible to love QS more than I do? Yes it is!

BTW, can someone tell me why the TUAW comment form doesn't save my personal info even though I dutifully click "yes" every time?

Yeah, the comma trick is awesome. Be sure not to mix and match file types though (like trying to open three bookmarks and an app), since it'll crash Quicksilver. :)

Wow! Now combine the "comma trick" by making it a trigger. You can open several pages in tabs, and even in the browser of your choice! Excellent!! Thanks for the tip!!!