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When comparing Quicksilver vs Karabiner, the Slant community recommends Quicksilver for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for macOS?” Quicksilver is ranked 16th while Karabiner is ranked 29th.
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Pros
Pro Easy-to-understand noun-verb paradigm for creating tasks
Pro A lot more powerful than Spotlight
Pro Makes it really fast to do a lot of actions
There are customizable triggers and capability to execute multilevel commands - e.g. launch terminal app, give the location of script and supply parameters for the script with one command.
Pro Vast extensibility via plugins
A lot of different plugins for browsers, file systems, mail clients, etc.
Pro Low-level key bindings/mappings
For example: Fn+C now calls up contextual menus for me with:
<!-- Fn + C = same as right-click mouse -->
<item>
<name>kybd control click</name>
<identifier>private.keybd_to_control_click</identifier>
<autogen>
__KeyToKey__
KeyCode::C, ModifierFlag::FN,
KeyCode::VK_MOUSEKEY_BUTTON_RIGHT
</autogen>
</item>
Pro Make FN key into a new modifier key for custom shortcuts across apps
Cons
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Con Difficult to configure custom actions
Configuring custom actions requires editing an XML file with very strange syntax, for which it's difficult to find good documentation.