Well, there might be issues with Rich Text / HTML e-mails. But in general you would want to use the text object of the current object. basically if you change the text I know that the Text object provides paragraph and sentence access, but I am not sure about line numbers. If you bring up the library for the Mail app or the Textedit application, then you should be able to find information about the text object.
selection, this will move the keyboard cursor. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 27, 2015, at 8:13 AM, Jürgen Fleger <apple-engl...@fleger.net> wrote: > > Did you try a three finger swipe up and down when interacted with the e-mail > content? > Jürgen >> Am 27.02.2015 um 13:59 schrieb David Griffith <daj.griff...@gmail.com>: >> >> I guess I should set this up as a project for myself but I know nothing >> about Applescripts. >> >> One of the really frustrating things for me is the lack of a page down or up >> command which can work in Mail Messages. This means that in really long text >> email messages, for example in a mail digest the only navigation options are >> by line or to the top or bottom of the email. Even a quick nav paragraph >> granularity will only deliver a single line as there is a line break at the >> end of each line. >> >> This makes navigating these digests tedious especially if they contain lots >> of repeated previous messages contents in their threads. >> >> I wonder how difficult it would be to set up a script which had the affect >> of forcing the cursor to jump say 25 or 30 lines down or up, thus emulating >> a page up or down command. >> >> I have tried all the available VO navigation options in Numpad and Keypad >> commander but none of them will work in Mail Messages so this would be a >> genuinely useful script. >> >> David Griffith >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
