Re: get selected text of message in Mail?
Re: get selected text of message in Mail?
- Subject: Re: get selected text of message in Mail?
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:03:36 -0700
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:57:16 +0100, "Charles Arthur, UKClimbing Editor"
<email@hidden> said:
>OK, I can't figure it out. Is it feasible?
>
>In Eudora (where yes, I enjoy changing the subject line... oh, that's
>another topic, isn't it?) one can do
>
> set thetext to selected text
>
>and get, well, the text you've selected in whatever message you're looking at.
>
>However I've found nothing comparable in Mail.
>
>You can get the whole text of a message -
> set foo to the selection
> set foo to item 1 of foo
> set thetext to (content) of foo
>(inside a Mail tell block of course)
>
>but things like "selected text of content" don't compile, "selection of
>content" doesn't make sense (because "selection" applies to the mail
>messages window).
>
>Any way to do this?
No. m.
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