Re: Mail Search surrogate
Re: Mail Search surrogate
- Subject: Re: Mail Search surrogate
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:32:25 -0700
At 10:24 AM -0700 4/9/09, Gil Dawson wrote:
>>Google "spotlight mdfind".
>
>I'll give it a try.
Here's a sample script, which I use in BBEdit. I have a variety of them, hardcoded for different project directory trees so I can prune my results appropriately, so feel free to munge this as needed.
The majority of this script is oriented toward getting a list of results from Spotlight and then having BBEdit search those files and produce a browser of hits. With any luck you could do something similar in Mail.
Jon
-- get and remember the selected string
property pLastQuery : ""
tell application "BBEdit"
set bbpath to file of document 1 as string
try
set s to contents of selection
on error number -1728
set s to ""
end try
end tell
-- allow you to select an entire line and ignore the return character
if length of s > 1 and last character of s = return then
set s to characters 1 thru -2 of s as string
end if
if s "" then
set pLastQuery to s
else
-- no selection, so ask for a string
set pLastQuery to text returned of (display dialog "Find what?" default answer pLastQuery)
end if
set ftext to do shell script "mdfind \"" & pLastQuery & "\"" -- & " -onlyin /Work/" -- can use a directory to limit the search
-- turn the textual list of posix file paths into an AppleScript list of file references
set flist to {}
set fparas to paragraphs of ftext
repeat with f in fparas
try
set pf to POSIX file f
copy pf to end of flist
end try
end repeat
-- have BBEdit search only those files for the original text
tell application "BBEdit"
find pLastQuery searching in flist options {search mode:literal, case sensitive:false, match words:false, extend selection:false}
end tell
-- now have a find window open in BBEdit without grepping extra files
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