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Re: Help! Need to get text from OS X Mail to Tex-Edit...
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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: John Delacour <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 05:40:41 +0100

At 4:47 pm -0600 3/9/02, 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.


I can see no need for any third party utility, at least in 10.2. The script below will create and open a text file containing the text of the front message:


tell app "Mail" to set mText to content of item 1 of (get selection)
set f to ((path to temporary items) as string) & "temp.txt"
open for access file f with write permission
set eof file f to 0
write mText to file f
close access file f
tell app "Finder" to open file f


-- JD
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