{"id":124,"date":"2009-02-01T01:44:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T06:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/01\/better-append-in-quicksilver-and-faster-file-accessalso-in-quicksilver\/"},"modified":"2009-02-01T01:46:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T06:46:56","slug":"better-append-in-quicksilver-and-faster-file-accessalso-in-quicksilver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/01\/better-append-in-quicksilver-and-faster-file-accessalso-in-quicksilver\/","title":{"rendered":"Better append tip in Quicksilver, and faster file access&#8230;also in Quicksilver."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with the Merlin Mann-popularized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/2004\/09\/04\/quicksilver-append-to-a-text-file-from-anywhere\">tip of appending text to a file from Quicksilver<\/a>. And it&#8217;s cool. But, I like a good chunk of whitespace to separate some things. But how to get the whitespace in there? Hitting return just saves the text and closes the window, and putting a \\n just adds those characters to the file.<\/p>\n<p>The trick to getting new lines or blank lines in Quicksilver is to either press control or option while hitting return. Then, you can add empty lines to your heart&#8217;s content. It&#8217;s awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Also, bonus tip: If you&#8217;re in Quicksilver and you want to browse your user directory\/desktop, just press ~ after activating Quicksilver. Then you can use the arrow keys to browse starting at your home directory. I didn&#8217;t know that this existed until 5 minutes ago, but I want to start using it more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with the Merlin Mann-popularized tip of appending text to a file from Quicksilver. And it&#8217;s cool. But, I like a good chunk of whitespace to separate some things. But how to get the whitespace in there? Hitting return just saves the text and closes the window, and putting a \\n just adds &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/01\/better-append-in-quicksilver-and-faster-file-accessalso-in-quicksilver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Better append tip in Quicksilver, and faster file access&#8230;also in Quicksilver.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,146],"tags":[397,396,398,395,49,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}