Unit Conversion plugin for Quicksilver

I don't like quicksilver. :)

#1: I haven't tried this plugin, but since the denominator for both units is 1 hour, just convert miles to kilometers.

As one commenter has already mentioned, documentation may be found via the drawer accessible via the plug-ins pref pane. For valid syntax, see the man page for units(1). The GNU units command has much nicer functionality but it doesn't come w/ Mac OS X so I didn't add support for it in this version of the plug-in.

Google's calculator and conversion functionality is much nicer, but AFAICT they wouldn't be too happy w/ the results being scraped so as usual I have avoided making a plug-in which would leverage them ;-)

Oops. In #8, I actually meant "I followed the instructions in #7..."

I followed the instructions in #5 but I still don't get a "Search with Google" action after I type ".100 km in miles".

I wonder if it's because under Catalog->Modules I only see "Web Searches (from docs.blacktree.com)" to enable. And the 'i' drawer shows a long list of "Scanned Objects" under contents, all enabled.

Thanks for your help.

#5: This is something that's always irked me about installing that plugin; QS doesn't enable it once it's installed, you need to go in manually and switch it on.

I'm running one of the alpha dev editions, so my preference pane setup might be slightly different than yours. But here's the basic way to turn on the search module:

1) go into the Quicksilver preferences and then the Catalog preference pane
2) In your edition I *think* you should have a 'Custom' or 'Modules' section of all your catalog entries; basically, you need to find the 'Web Searches' module and enable it.
3) For extra points, click the 'i' at the bottom of QS, and you'll get a drawer that lets you customize various things in your catalog and plugins, including exactly which searches from this module get listed in your QS queries.

Hope this helps!

#1: The provided help is accessed by clicking the 'i' button in the Quicksilver plugin preference pane when you have this plugin selected. This is a typical operation for any plugin/action that has instructions associated with it, as it pops out a drawer with information. Also, I lay out an example of how to use this plugin in the post, along with examples of unit type conversions in the associated list.

Hope this helps.

How do I enable the "Search with Google" action in QS? I enabled the "Web Search Module" plug-in, but that didn't seem to do it.

what plug-in is that?? The google thing...

Whoops, I meant without the QS plugin, but you *could* do them without QS as well :)