Paste Text Into Mail
Paste Text Into Mail
- Subject: Paste Text Into Mail
- From: Simon Forster <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 11:48:50 +0100
Hi
Having been away from this list for a while I return with the simplest
of questions. How do I insert text into the current Mail message at
the cursor? I've thrashed around for a while now and ended up with
setting the clipboard and then pasting (tell application "System
Events" to keystroke "v" using {command down}). Very inelegant and
alters the current contents of the clipboard - which may be a pain.
Any insight?
The whole story is that I've got bored of Mail dumping the signature
where it sees fit so I'd like to get a service up and running so that
right clicking in Mail allows me to drop the sig at the current cursor
position. It'll save me hours each week.
I've sort of got this working using Automator and AppleScript but:
1) It uses the nasty paste example above.
2) I don't seem to understand how to get Mac OS to display the action
in a contextual menu - unless I get Automator to expect an input (i.e.
tick the appropriate box in Automator and then select text before
inserting the sig). Not ideal - especially as then I've got to select
text before it works.
I may be missing the obvious here (but the paste signature before
quoted text in prefs isn't it. Depending on the audience I may be top
posting, bottom posting or inserting stuff inline. My prefs. My
workflow. Please respect that and don't get knickers into twist wrt
the one true way to quote text in a mail message.)
Mac OS 10.6 if that makes a difference.
TIA
Simon Forster
LDML Ltd
t: +44 20 7993 8813
m: +44 79 0528 8198
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