Noivad's Control-[Key] Lookup

[noivad]

The workflow is very simple to use: select the text you want to lookup and hit the control (^) key combo to do a search at the site most relevant. 

Duckduckgo    ^/        (general search)
Acronyms     ^A        (language)
Bandcamp        ^B         (music)
Discogs         ^D        (music)
Etymology     ^E        (language)
IMDb            ^I        (entertainment)
Meme            ^M        (social)
Slang         ^S        (language)
Twitter Who    ^T        (social)
Whois        ^W        (internet)

no setup required unless you already have control key combos mapped to the trigger characters. Simply change the activation key or delete if not relevant.

https://github.com/noivad/alfred_workflows/releases/tag/Alfred

[vitor]

By design, Alfred strips Hotkey values when the Workflow is imported. This is precisely so when adding a third-party Workflow, you won’t have your shortcuts overridden without a say. In other words, your keyboard shortcuts are unique to you, anyone importing the Workflow will add their own.

[noivad]

Just now, vitor said:

By design, Alfred strips Hotkey values when the Workflow is imported. This is precisely so when adding a third-party Workflow, you won’t have your shortcuts overridden without a say. In other words, your keyboard shortcuts are unique to you, anyone importing the Workflow will add their own.

That completely nullifies all the work I did on this workflow. Alfred should have a merge feature on workflow import.

[vitor]

Just now, noivad said:

That completely nullifies all the work I did on this workflow.

 

It does not. Your connections, Keywords, Terminal Command, Open URLs and even the organisation of your Hotkeys will all remain in place. Plus, presumably you’ve added those shortcuts for your use as well.

 

1 minute ago, noivad said:

Alfred should have a merge feature on workflow import.

 

Alfred as always worked this way. Before importing a user can’t know if the Hotkeys the Workflow has will conflict with their own. Accepting random Hotkeys would likely lead to undesirable results.