Re: moving multiple *selected* messages in Eudora
Re: moving multiple *selected* messages in Eudora
- Subject: Re: moving multiple *selected* messages in Eudora
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:00:47 -0700
At 20:07 +0000 3/18/03, John Delacour wrote:
(Second level quotes are from me.)
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the first message, the front message, message 1, message 0 and message ""
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all denote the same object.
But the simple word "message" won't work and neither will "selected message" or "last message"
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> The way one keeps from repeatedly operating on the same message is to move each one somewhere else...
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wrong, it doesn't have to be else, just somewhere. It's not where it seems to be anyway. That's just an illUIsion.
What code would I use to move the message "somewhere" while retaining the illusion that it hasn't gone somewhere else? How about "don't move message 1"?
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Wrong. It means either the message in window 1 or the topmost selected message in a summary window whose index is 1
How does one know which window index to use when there is more than one mailbox summary open? Is "Window 1" always the active window? The syntax "active window" is not understood. Auf Englische, one might have a couple of messages and a couple of mailboxes open. Something is always the active window but it's not clear at all that an Applescript will work on the selection one expects. It's quite possible to have multiple mailbox summaries open with a block of selected messages in each. Will your "try and move" code step through the selections in all open windows?
And what is meant by "topmost"? Is it the top one on the screen as sorted - the illusion? Or is it the one that comes earlier in the underlying mailbox text file?
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>I too would really like to have the truth explained in a more general way than with example code.
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A common human desire!
Perhaps it's theological anxiety. I'm pushing 68 and FORTRAN never had these problems.
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What guesswork? It's clear enough. I can see where you might have a problem but I'm not going to give you the solution till you pose the problem. Then that bit will be clear too.
"The task of an educator is not to provide a cookbook but to produce a self-educating man." Victor Butterfield, president of Wesleyan University, circa 1956.
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