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* Hit Escape to <b>cancel</b> the command. Ubiquity disappears with no effect.
* Click on one of the <b>links</b> in the preview. In the case of the Wikipedia preview, clicking a link will take you directly to the article you're interested in.
== Abbreviating Commands and Using the Suggestion List ==
"Wikipedia babel fish" is quite a lot to type. You can save some wear and tear on your fingers by letting Ubiquity's suggestion list do the work for you. Issue "w" -- bring up Ubiquity and type just the letter "w". You'll see suggestions of all the commands that start with the letter "w". At present, that means two commands: Wikipedia and Weather.
[Picture here of Wikipedia and Weather suggestions]
Now type the letter "i", so that the input box shows "wi". The suggestion list narrows down to just the one command that starts with "wi" -- "Wikipedia".
[Picture of the Wikipedia suggestion]
Now you can hit the space bar and type the rest of your command:
[Picture where the input is "wi babel fish"]
Let's try another example. Suppose you want to know what the weather is like in Chicago. Try issuing "w chicago".
[Picture where the input is "w chicago"]
You'll see that the top suggestion is "wikipedia chicago". If you the Return key now, this is the command that will be executed. But that's now what we want right now, so hit the <b>down arrow key</b> instead, to hilight the second suggestion: "weather chicago"
You can now see a preview of the weather forecast for Chicago. Hit return to go to the full weather report page on Wunderground.com.
Of course, you could have just issued "we chicago", or even "we 60601" (that's a Chicago zip code) to get the same results.
== Doing Commands on Selections ==
Often, the thing you're interested in searching for is right in front of you, on the web page you're looking at. Why go to the trouble of re-typing it when you can use what you've already got?
Select the words "Mountain View, California" below by dragging your mouse across them:
Mountain View, California
Now summon Ubiquity. Hit the "delete" key to clear out your last command. You'll see a suggestion list full of different commands that could act upon your selection:
[Picture of suggestions for the "Mountain View" selection]
If you see the command you want, you can just use the down-arrow key to get to it. Otherwise, you can type the first few letters of the command name:
[Picture of suggestions for "we" with "Mountain View" selected]
Let's say you're reading a web page and you find an unfamiliar word:
aglet
Just select the word and issue "define".
You could have achieved the same thing by typing "define aglet" -- or just "def aglet", or even "def this". (Ubiquity understands "this" to refer to the selection.)
Defining words is oft-taken action. Ubiquity makes it easy. Try, for instance selecting the following word: "aglet". Now issue "define". Notice that Ubiquity defines the selection. You could also issue "def this" and Ubiquity will know what you mean.
== Emailing ==
