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    Add Finder shortcut app folder to default search locations

    in Alfred Feature Suggestions

    Posted · Edited by iandol

    Hi this is very minor. Within /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app there are a set of "shortcut" apps that open the respective Finder features/locations:

     

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    It seems this would be a useful addition to the default search locations for Alfred, as it would add iCloud Drive, Recents and other "links" to the standard search results.

      

    /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Applications/

     

     

    MarkdownTransform — Convert Markdown to other formats

    in Share your Workflows

    Posted

    On 20/12/2017 at 2:28 AM, vitor said:

    Update.


    Should now work with system ruby.


    To update, download the latest version (same URL) or wait a few days and it’ll prompt you to on next usage, since it uses OneUpdater.

     

    Great (though in the meantime I made my own workflow that uses Pandoc with a custom Lua writer)! Out of curiosity and desire to learn, how did you get this to work?

     

    Thanks again for your excellent workflows!

    Bookends Tools — A curated toolset for Bookends reference manager

    in Share your Workflows

    Posted · Edited by iandol
    one possible solution?

    You can test this by modifying the findReferences.applescript if...end if block on line 9 to send some debugging output to the desktop:

      

    		if length of query is greater than 1 then --no point in searching for <=2 letter fragments
			set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return}
			set searchString to "authors REGEX '(?i)" & query as string & "'"
			set refList to text items of («event ToySSQLS» searchString)
			do shell script "echo " & quoted form of (searchString as string) & " >> ~/Desktop/becite.txt"
			do shell script "echo " & quoted form of (refList as string) & " >> ~/Desktop/becite.txt"
			set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {","}
		end if

     

    This shows the output for english names but not Chinese characters. If I remove the "if length..." check then the script blocks taking ages for searching each single character. The solution would be to check if this is a particular range of unicode, and if it was standard latin then enforce the length check, otherwise don't. but how one does that in Applescript I don't know, so one would have to do it in the shell? 

     

    If I set length to 0 then the script works:

      

    ?  osascript findReferences.applescript 王   
{"items": [    

{
	"uid": "38685",
	"arg": "38685",
	"title": "王 2017",
	"subtitle": "This is a test article",
	"icon": {"path": "file.png"}
}
]}

    So the issue really is to be able to check if the Alfred input is chinese or not in the Applescript. Any ideas welcome!

     

    EDIT: one way is to use the shell test command and check if the input is greater than a latin extended character (binary value of the string value is used): if [[ '王' > 'ž' ]] then; echo "YES!"; fi

    Bookends Tools — A curated toolset for Bookends reference manager

    in Share your Workflows

    Posted

    Hm, that's weird. Eggman's script (which I slightly modified) should work with english names (it does for me and I assume everyone else). The first line of the applescript converts the input from Alfred into UTF-8:

      

    set query to (do shell script "echo " & argv & " | iconv -s -f UTF-8-Mac -t UTF-8") as Unicode text

     

    and so it should work at input. Bookends should be UTF-8 aware, if you do a SQL search (⇧⌘S) directly in Bookends, it seems to work:

     

    Sample: 位 王 & 照山 张 (2017) “This is a test article” Neuron 23(4) p.1–5 

     

    SQL REGEX: authors REGEX '王'

     

    One potential problem is for speed I do not use single character search (if you search for "s" you basically block the applescript, which means chinese characters may never trigger the search...

    Cmd+Space Hotkey Activation intermittent after several minutes idle [Solution inside]

    in Closed

    Posted

    @Andrew — yes i can confirm that with ⌥SPACE Alfred works OK — however years of use of ⌘SPACE mean I do not function properly without ⌘SPACE :lol:

     

    I can only add to the voices that since I have started using macOS (~Panther), I face more stupid (and not so stupid) bugs than ever. But I'm with @deanishe in that they are still less bad than the alternatives (though the gap is diminishing, at least with windows; ubuntu 17.10 broke more things than 10.13 so the differential remains)...

     

    MarkdownTransform — Convert Markdown to other formats

    in Share your Workflows

    Posted

    I tried in High Sierra with the system ruby, and see the same issue with the (ruby 2.3.3p222) there as well as rbenv; that a dynamically linked library libruby.2.4.2.dylib cannot be found: 

    required dylib '/usr/local/opt/ruby/lib/libruby.2.4.2.dylib' not found, needed by '...Redcarpet/gems/redcarpet-3.4.0/lib/redcarpet.bundle'.  Did try: file not found '/usr/lib/libruby.2.4.2.dylib', file not found '/usr/local/lib/libruby.2.4.2.dylib', file not found '/usr/local/opt/ruby/lib/libruby.2.4.2.dylib'

    I don't think this is a ruby version issue, but that the redcarpet that you bundle has a specific dylib dependency that is not met. I have RedCarpet gem installed locally, but it does not get used by your workflow. I tried searching in my rbenv install for 2.4.2 and cannot find libruby.2.4.2.dylib anywhere. rbenv uses ruby-build to install a ruby from source and I don't know why this is different than the homebrewed ruby. I need to use rbenv for other things, so don't want to install a third copy of ruby with homebrew. I can stick to your old workflow.

     

    Anyway, thank you for all your excellent workflows!

    MarkdownTransform — Convert Markdown to other formats

    in Share your Workflows

    Posted · Edited by iandol

    I've tried MerkdownTransform using Ruby V2.4.2p198 installed via rbenv and it fails (same error as if I use System Ruby 2.0.0p648 in Sierra):

      

    Starting debug for 'MarkdownTransform'

[2017-11-27 23:42:37][trigger.hotkey] Processing output of 'action.script' with arg 'Here is a **test** text'
[2017-11-27 23:42:38][ERROR: action.script] /Users/ian/.rbenv/versions/2.4.2/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': dlopen(/Users/ian/Dropbox/Assorted/Alfred Settings/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.B3480116-6231-4778-AD34-B08AA40F9A5D/_licensed/Redcarpet/gems/redcarpet-3.4.0/lib/redcarpet.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/ruby/lib/libruby.2.4.2.dylib (LoadError)
  Referenced from: /Users/ian/Dropbox/Assorted/Alfred Settings/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.B3480116-6231-4778-AD34-B08AA40F9A5D/_licensed/Redcarpet/gems/redcarpet-3.4.0/lib/redcarpet.bundle
  Reason: image not found - /Users/ian/Dropbox/Assorted/Alfred Settings/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.B3480116-6231-4778-AD34-B08AA40F9A5D/_licensed/Redcarpet/gems/redcarpet-3.4.0/lib/redcarpet.bundle
	from /Users/ian/.rbenv/versions/2.4.2/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
	from /Users/ian/Dropbox/Assorted/Alfred Settings/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.B3480116-6231-4778-AD34-B08AA40F9A5D/_licensed/Redcarpet/gems/redcarpet-3.4.0/lib/redcarpet.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
	from /Users/ian/.rbenv/versions/2.4.2/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
	from /Users/ian/.rbenv/versions/2.4.2/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
	from ./bbcode:4:in `<main>'
[2017-11-27 23:42:38][action.script] Processing output of 'output.clipboard' with arg ''
[2017-11-27 23:42:38][output.clipboard] Processing output of 'action.script' with arg ''

     

    I can test on another machine with High Sierra and Ruby V2.3 tomorrow see if I also get the Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/ruby/lib/libruby.2.4.2.dylib (LoadError) 

    Cmd+Space Hotkey Activation intermittent after several minutes idle [Solution inside]

    in Closed

    Posted

    karabiner_grabber is a root process which isn't unloaded when you force quit Karabiner, run as a KeepAlive daemon, so sudo killall -KILL won't work and I had to manually:

      

    sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.pqrs.karabiner.karabiner_grabber.plist 

     

    but, though it is only a short time since I made sure karabiner wasn't running, I've still experienced one missed hotkey activation.I'll try to keep Console open and see if I can see anything in the system log when it happens next...

    Cmd+Space Hotkey Activation intermittent after several minutes idle [Solution inside]

    in Closed

    Posted

    Thanks Andrew, I've run for a day after exiting karabiner elements and bettertouchtool and I still see the same problem (less often, though note karabiner leaves a process, karabiner_grabber in memory even after exiting) I'm very well aware this is a non-reproducible bug and almost impossible for you to do much about. Is there a way to enable a debugging mode for Alfred, to see if anything gets spat out when the hotkey fails?

    Cmd+Space Hotkey Activation intermittent after several minutes idle [Solution inside]

    in Closed

    Posted

    Thank you @Andrew . I had no other input sources so no hotkey was assigned. I've now added a new input source and made sure that no input source hotkeys are not ⌘SPACE, then disabled them all (as specified in the instructions)

     

    I'll try to run with ⌥SPACE for a while, however my muscle memory is so locked to ⌘ I will often forget, if it seems OK, then I'll try going back to ⌘SPACE and see what the situation is.

     

    I do have karabiner elements installed, but only use it to transform CAPS LOCK to something more useful, and I also use BetterTouchTool, but there are no hotkey's assigned to ⌘SPACE, and anyway these apps both run on my laptop where I see no issue.

    Cmd+Space Hotkey Activation intermittent after several minutes idle [Solution inside]

    in Closed

    Posted · Edited by iandol
    add build number

    I have a clear issue on one machine, whose reproducibility depends on *not* using Alfred for a while. On my iMac (magic keyboard2) I have my Alfred hotkey set to ⌘SPACE and if I do not use Alfred for 5-10minutes or more when I press the hotkey Alfred does NOT trigger. If I hit the hotkey a second time then it activates fine; then I dismiss Alfred, and I can trigger it reliably again. BUT if I start working on something and don't trigger Alfred for an amount of time (I haven't determined exactly how long, but it seems to be more than 5 minutes or so), then the first trigger fail happens again. I fixed it by rebooting for a while then it returned. I sync my Alfred settings via Dropbox to my laptop, which DOESN'T ever show this problem...

     

    I worried that the problem was physically with my [SPACE] key but I can trigger Spotlight reliably with ⌃SPACE before I try Alfred which fails, and SPACE never fails when I'm writing normally. I've tried using the second ⌘ key just in case the left key was a problem but I also see the same issue.

     

    The major difference between my iMac and laptop is I upgraded to 10.13.1 on my iMac where I still run 10.12 on my laptop. Both machines run Alfred V3.5.1 [883]

    Bookends Tools — A curated toolset for Bookends reference manager

    in Share your Workflows

    Posted

    This is for tool 7 (becite)? At the moment it takes the entry name and searches immediately, I'm not sure how to add a page number without interfering with the initial search. So I wonder whether I can add a (key modifier) trigger when you select an item to bring up Alfred again to enter the page number, I'll have a think about it over the weekend, any other ideas welcome :)

    New AppleScript Progress Support - FYI

    in Workflow Help & Questions

    Posted

    Thanks deanishe, very neat idea, however my applescript can run for 3-5 minutes in the background so blocking Alfred for this time wouldn't be much use.

     

    I found this tool:

     

    https://github.com/tsntsumi/ProgressDialog

     

    However it uses "tell application" and I can't see how that would work if it is stored in the workflow bundle. So annoying Apple never made Applescript progress work for scripts...

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