[Dash] Search Selected Text

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###MACRO: [Dash] Search
~~~ VER: 1.1     2015-07-31 ~~~
(but not uploaded until 2016-08-18)

####DOWNLOAD:
[Dash] Search.kmmacros (9.5 KB)

Author: @JMichaelTX at KM forum

PURPOSE: SEARCH using the Dash app for programming terms & syntax

SUGGESTED TRIGGER:    ^⌥⌘D

HOW TO USE:
(1) Select text you want to search Dash for
IF nothing is selected, User is prompted for text to search
(2) Trigger this macro

WHAT IT DOES:
(1) Builds the URL search string for Dash
(2) Opens in Dash using the "Open URL" Action

REQUIRES:
(1) Keyboard Maestro 7.1+
(2) macOS 10.10.5+
(3) Dash 3.2+

Keyboard Maestro Export.png598×2992 233 KB

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Thank you for sharing it.

But this is all really strange. It doesn’t work fully for me. Firstly it always triggers the manual prompt.

I have made a screencast, I think it is a good way to show what I mean : http://quick.as/YabRH8ZvB

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I have kind of dismissed the km macro as it is very confusing and doesn’t work reliably in favour of a vim plugin for Dash which works as it is supposed to every time.

4

As I mentioned previously, it has some Actions specifically for Script Editor and AppleScript. The prompt you are seeing is to ask the user whether or not to use a Dash type prefix. If you don't want that, just delete or disable the relevant Actions.

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If you don't want to set the Dash Language to search, change the last Action to remove

%Variable%DashLang%: