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paste into multiple fields with Quicksilver?

During my normal work day, I do a lot of work in a web-based database application. And for the really repetitive data entry items, I have set up triggers to paste the “canned text” into different fields. But I have yet to figure out how I can paste into multiple fields at once with one trigger. Is this possible?

For example: Right now… I manually place my cursor in a field… hit Cmd+Opt+O to paste the first bit of text… hit the [Tab] key on my keyboard… hit Cmd+Opt+P to paste the next bit of text… hit the [Tab] key on my keyboard… hit Cmd+Opt+[ to paste the last bit of text.

But what I want to do is just place the cursor in the first field… hit Cmd+Opt+O and have it automatically paste-tab-paste-tab-paste. But for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to get Quicksilver to Tab over to another field.

Can someone shed some light on this?

thanks!


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Berko's picture

How much is static

Is it the same data each time? One field different? Depending on the amount of data and how much it changes, you could simply do this with a curl command. Or, since it’s the same fields each time, you could write a shell or perl script that would take arguments for the fields. Something like this

timesaver.pl "Field one value" "Field Two Value" etc.

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