have a keyword act on selected text

[dfay]

Allow a keyword to have the argument pre-populated with selected text (or maybe add a modifier key that does so), just as hotkeys have the option to act on selected text already.

 

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[Andrew]

@dfay it's unlikely I'll add this to Alfred as it would involve quite a bit of fudging to be compatible. When you use a hotkey to select some text in Alfred, the source app still has focus so it's easy to generically get that app to copy the selection to the clipboard. Once Alfred has focus (i.e. you are typing a keyword into Alfred), this context has gone so it would involve using e.g. Accessibility access which the main Alfred app doesn't want, or AppleScript which is very much app specific.

 

I do have some things planned for Alfred in the future which will make getting a text selecting into an Alfred Workflow more generic, but no details as of yet.

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[dfay]

That makes sense.  I thought about trying to cook a solution with AppleScript as well but realized the app-specific issue would make it nigh impossible.