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Alfred 2.0.3 b184 is now in pre-release from the in-app auto-updater, including a fix for this, so please update to test

Currently the "Increase/Decrease result padding" adjustment in the theme editor adjusts the space between the result text and the subtext. I'd like to see a way to adjust the outer padding of the result row, thus increasing/decreasing the space *between* result rows.
 
Cheers!

The Homebrew-based terminal theme I've been using forever, converted to v2. No monospace fonts though cos they look fugly.
 

The Homebrew-based terminal theme I've been using forever, converted to v2. No monospace fonts though cos they look fugly.
 

This is certainly a very interesting idea, and definitely something I'm willing to have a good think about after v2.0 is out. It might be worth reviving this topic and reminding me in the future

Script filters fire for every key press. That is fine for lightweight script filters that can respond quickly but is a problem for heavy script filters that take significant time to operate. It would be helpful to support script filter throttling. This might be as simple as a checkbox ("Throttle requests"). It would work by waiting a short time between key presses, if another key is pressed the timer resets, if the timer expires the script filter is run.
 
It's possible to emulate this in a script but it's such a common use case it would be helpful to have it in Alfred.

I would like to make workflow for tagging files with openmeta.
At the moment I came up with File Action that copies files paths to clipboard and then
I run tagging script with keyword followed by tags.
It would be much better if paths in buffer were passed to script in way similar to query - {files}(?).
 
Then I could put files in buffer, type keyword and tags to run workflow.
 

Hey team,
Is there any chance you could add a checkbox to have "browse folder in alfred" be the default action on a folder (when pressing enter)?
 
Even though I use alfred constantly, I keep making the mistake of pressing enter and having Finder come up. I find the way it is done right now not really consistant throughout the entire Alfred experience since when you are in the browsing mode, enter becomes a way to actually navigate. But I guess other people might see it the other way: pressing enter always opens files so it should also open folders...
 
Two logical way of thinking, in my opinion. Thus, the option to chose would be good.
 
Thanks.

Couldn't there also be an option to simply add your own entry to "Languages"?  This would avoid cluttering the list with all of those different shells while allowing anyone who wanted to use one to do so.

This is deffo in the works, I just haven't gotten around to it yet!

I would love to see Alfred learn about multi-stage keyboard shortcuts as seen in text editors like Sublime Text 2 and some keyboard shortcut utilities. Standard chordal shortcuts get heavily overloaded and difficult to remember fast. Multi-stage shortcuts allow you to define shortcuts as a series of discrete keypresses and overload them like so:
 
Command-k, m (Press 'Command-k', release, press 'm')
Command-k, n (Press 'Command-k', release, press 'n')
Command-k, s, a (Press 'Command-k', release, press 's', release, press 'a') [Just as an example]
 
Shortcuts like this are much easier to remember than increasingly arcane chordal shortcuts. To overload 'Command-k' using chordal shortcuts you have to do this:
 
Command-k
Command-Option-k
Command-Control-k
Command-Control-Option-Shift-k
etc

I would like a checkbox next to the "Encode query..." and "Encode spaces" that disables the character escaping for the {query}.
 
Rationale:
For us developers who use Alfred everyday in our workflow there are times (for example when working on REST services)
where I'd like to create a set of searches like:
 
keyword: s3dev
url: http://aws-portal.mycompany.com/s3/pre-prod/{query}
 
where I can trigger it in alfred:
 
       s3dev 5002/some/rest/endpoint/5012
 
and it will take me to
 
    http://aws-portal.mycompany.com/s3/pre-prod/5002/some/rest/endpoint/5012
 
Currently it will escape the forward slashes (and other url characters).
 
I'm hoping this will be a popular suggestion and easy to implement seeing as it's just bypassing whatever escapeString() Alfred is using.

Thanks for your reply.
 
Custom workflow actions may be useful in the general case, but it would be a smaller step to provide a way to pass script filter results to the standard set of file actions (on the assumption that the results are actually file paths).
 
Anyway, it's a pity since I've been waiting for v2 to get more customisable filtering. E.g., "one level deep filtering" is something I would like to use a lot. It's tantalisingly close now...
 
Is it worth me submitting a feature request for the file-specific case of custom actions?

Spotlight doesn't show these by default. You have to set "System Files" to "are included" in the additional parameters. I assume Alfred's search only includes the default Spotlight search scope, which is probably the sensible thing to do.
 
You can easily set up a "File Filter" workflow to do this search though. The "system files" checkbox is right there:
 

Here's a workflow that utilizes an Applescript I wrote to parse a text input and create a reminder in Reminders.app
 
http://cl.ly/3D2p051e002M
 
Here's the original Applescript on Github if you wish to copy/modify for your own uses
 
https://gist.github.com/3813222
 
(The Applescript will work in LaunchBar too.)

Try this search URL:
 
nv://find/{query}
 
Works for me.

It seems awfully clunky to create a new text snippet. Alfred makes a lot of stuff so much quicker, so to have to stop, go to the preferences and manually enter a new piece of text for a saved snippet feels like a drag. I wonder if there couldn't be an easier way of creating snippets on the fly. The simplest way would be to allow you to perform an action on one of your clipboard history entries, to "store as snippet". Or, just a command in Alfred: "snippet <new text clipping>".
 
Heck, this would be a perfect thing for a user-created workflow. I'd do it myself, but that "snippets.alfdb" file is a bit to impenetrable for me (and, I'm assuming, not designed to be messed with externally).

Cool thanks for the input. I found the cause of our issues. Non-interactive shells don't expand aliases by default. I'm now using the following:


shopt -s expand_aliases source /Users/Nick/.bash_profile {query} 2>&1 & I needed to append the ampersand to the final line to get Sublime Text 2 to play nicely when called from the workflow though I don't understand why.

This is working intermittently for me:
 
source /Users/danielsh/.bash_profile result=$(eval '{query}' 2>&1) echo $result But only intermittently. Functions that I've defined seem to work, but aliases do not, which seems strange. So for example, my .bash_profile contains this, which works:
# Uninstall an app with CleanMyMac clean () { open -a "CleanMyMac" /Applications/"${1}".app; }  
...and this, which returns "command not found":
alias myip="dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com"  
 
But maybe that'll give you something to go on.

This is deffo food for thought - there are probably quite a few usability issues to think through but in concept, I think something like this could work.
 
I'm a bit rammed with v2 stuff at the moment so it might be good to revive this thread once v2 has been generally released and I can think about it with a bit more of an open mind!
 
Cheers,
Andrew

Something I would like is if the icon parameter could take a URL to an image and load it asynchronously.
Been working on an extension of the spotify workflow and it's search, and have Alfred showing album covers in the results, but would be nice not having to download and store the thumbs before returning the search results to Alfred.

Some feature requests that I documented over the weekend while writing my first workflow:   Ability to buffer input for script filters (Wait until user is finished typing before calling script)Usage scenario: more reliable usage of web script filters that hit slow web APIs (e.g. GitHub repo search) Debugging tools for script filters, or at least a mechanism that lets me see stdoutUsage scenario: It'd be great to be able to know if my Python script raised an exception or emitted bad XML. Allow keyboard shortcut to open Alfred file browser at a certain pathUsage scenario: cmd+ctrl+shift+d to browse ~/Dropbox. I was able to do this in previous version of Alfred, but can't find v2 equivalent Allow keyboard shortcut to pass arbitrary text string as argUsage scenario: I want to have keyboard shortcuts for my Hue workflow that set the value to 0 or 255 (highest and lowest brightness) Support JSON output for script filtersXML is a pain to generate and properly encode. Serializing a dictionary into JSON from Python is much easier. Add an option that enables piping to script actions so that we have the choice of reading from stdin instead of using {query}.Usage scenario: this would be desirable for things like my markdown processor where I'm potentially taking a large amount of arbitrary text as input A way to name scripts actions (or provide some other way to make them easily distinguishable)Usage scenario: If I have several in a workflow, it's sometimes hard to find the one I'm actually looking for Hotkey option for "selected text OR clipboard" that will use clipboard as input when no text is selected.Usage scenario: this is something that I wanted for my Markdown workflow so that I don't have to have two separate shortcuts. Thanks!

I took mcskrzypczak's excellent Tiny theme and made some variants to suit my taste.
 
First, I added a black selection highlight, as the white was too difficult to see at times for me:
 
 
Tiny Stripe
 
Download:
 
http://cl.ly/0h2e1f3J072i
 
Preview:
 

 
 
Tiny Dark (Homebrew)
 
I also made a dark version that merges the Homebrew-based colours from my Terminal theme:
 
Download:
 
http://cl.ly/252w2k2k150o
 
Preview: