Word count script for Quicksilver
A poster on macOSXHints has posted an applescript 
for Quicksilver which provides a quick list of words, characters and lines in the form of a Growl alert.
After copying the text of the script to Script Editor and saving it off in your ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions folder, all you need to do is select some text, activate a “Command window with Selection” and then type “word” (or whatever matches the name you gave to the script when saving),:
The Growl alert is quick and simple:
Of course, this is not the only way to get a word count in Quicksilver.
Spell Catcher X’s statistics service is available within Quicksilver and provides even more information, including how much fog is in your prose:
Spell Catcher X is shareware (USD 39.95) but good enough to be in my Top Ten Things every Mail.app user should have.
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Tags: Apple Mail Tips, applescript, characters, growl, not apple mail, Productivity, quicksilver, word count, words
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:12 pm
This is probably a noob question, but what’s the easiest way to activate a quicksilver window with selection? At the moment, I select the item, then cmd-space to invoke qs, then cmd-g to grab the selection. Is there a command to do this in one step?
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Hi Andrew, I have a trigger called “Command Window with Selection” with the trigger set to ⌘` , so all I have to do is select some text and then hit that key combo to bring up QS with the text already copied into the first pane.
If that trigger is not preset with QS (I can’t remember that far back), creating a trigger is not very hard — see “A fistful of Quicksilver tutorials“
February 24th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I just select the text and use “Statistics…” in an application’s Services menu when I want a word count… but it seems the script you mentioned may be much quicker than this. Thanks Tim.