Cappyboppy Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 I am a relatively new Alfred user, and just discovered the wonderful file navigation functionality. But I've been frustrated by one aspect of it, probably missing something obvious: how do you expand a path when moving a file? For instance, when navigating to a file, both ⌅ and → expand the path; but then when moving a file, both ⌅ and → simply execute sending the file there. This means that I effectively have to type out the entire path name of the destination directory. Surely I am missing a better way of doing this? Link to comment
Andrew Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 @Cappyboppy While navigating in both Alfred's File System Navigating, and Action, you can use the tab key to auto-complete the currently typed path. Cheers, Andrew Link to comment
Cappyboppy Posted February 5, 2020 Author Share Posted February 5, 2020 (edited) Thanks for the response, @Andrew . But I swear ↹ tab doesn't work for me. Any idea why not? Edited February 5, 2020 by Cappyboppy Link to comment
vitor Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 @Cappyboppy I’m unsure if I understood your issue, but does ⇧⇥ work to autocomplete? If so, look under Alfred Preferences → Features → Actions → General → Show actions and disable the keys you don’t want to action items. Link to comment
Cappyboppy Posted February 6, 2020 Author Share Posted February 6, 2020 @vitor Right, the autocomplete is not working. Neither ⇧⇥ nor just ⇥ autocompletes. (And I experimented in the Action preferences, as you suggested; if I mark ⇥ as Show Action, ⇧⇥ still does not autocomplete.) Any other ideas? Very strange... Link to comment
deanishe Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Do you use any software that messes with the keyboard, like Karabiner. Link to comment
Cappyboppy Posted February 7, 2020 Author Share Posted February 7, 2020 I don't think so... but I'll see if I have the same issue on other computers when I get a chance. Link to comment
Cappyboppy Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 Okay, I've now tried tabbing on multiple computers using the same Alfred profile, and it doesn't work. Does that mean that a Workflow is likely causing the problem? Link to comment
deanishe Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 30 minutes ago, Cappyboppy said: Does that mean that a Workflow is likely causing the problem? Workflows can't interfere with Alfred like that. Link to comment
Cappyboppy Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 So I guess I'm just out of luck then? I have no idea where to even begin looking for another app that for some reason controls ⇥ in Alfred... (And I did try it with a default profile, so it must not have to do with any of my Alfred settings...) Link to comment
deanishe Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 1 minute ago, Cappyboppy said: I have no idea where to even begin looking for another app that for some reason controls ⇥ in Alfred... Try stopping everything in your status bar: most background apps have a status bar icon. Link to comment
Cappyboppy Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 Tried it; no luck... (But thanks for the suggestion!) What a weird problem... Link to comment
leahcim Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 To be sure, using tab to autocomplete only works if there is a single matching result - do you have only one result? e.g. when typing ~/Appl Link to comment
Cappyboppy Posted February 12, 2020 Author Share Posted February 12, 2020 (edited) Oh. Yeah, that does work, actually... Thanks @leahcim, and sorry everyone else... There is no way to make it so that the tab fill-in works for whichever result is currently highlighted? That seems like the obvious default to me... Edited February 12, 2020 by Cappyboppy Link to comment
leahcim Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 I agree, that would be my preferred solution as well - or, even better, cycling through all matches. Same as in most terminals. Link to comment
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