Re: Help! Need to get text from OS X Mail to Tex-Edit...
Re: Help! Need to get text from OS X Mail to Tex-Edit...
- Subject: Re: Help! Need to get text from OS X Mail to Tex-Edit...
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:19:34 -0700
On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 03:47 PM, Robert Parker wrote:
I'm trying to create an AppleScript (that I execute from the
AppleScript menubar in OS X) that'll take the currently selected email
(using OS X's native email app) and transfer the contents into a
Tex-Edit document automatically so I can do some stuff to the text.
Working with Tex-Edit is easy since it's recordable. In fact, I've
already finished this part of my project.
The problem is that the email app in OS X is apparently not recordable
so I'm REALLY having a difficult time getting the selected email text
into a TexEdit document.
If anyone out there could help me I'd greatly appreciate it.
You'll have to use a third party utility like Keyboard Maestro to get
the current selection from Mail to the clipboard. You can find a
solution if you search the list archives from late July/early August
for the topic "scripting mail" and look for posts by David Meieran and
myself. We were writing to text files so your solution will be a
variant of those scripts. At any rate, there is a little known relic
from NeXT called 'pbpaste' which is very handy in some situations. I
have since ported that script from OS X 10.1.5 to 10.2 but there were
only miniscule changes. About Keyboard Maestro: It has a little quirk
about stashing the designated AppleScript so if you change it later (as
is often the case when developing a script), you'll have to re-load it
into KM.
HTH,
Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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