Benny,
YOU are a genius angel
Thanks !
Marc
On 22 Nov 2013, at 10:39, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
On 22 Nov 2013, at 9:44, mailmate wrote:
I need to copy a part of a subject kind of:
ex Subject: Serial: XHGFSTW - File: 509393 - Reference: 43467
I need to copy ex the serial of the file number to lookup this info
in another application.
Any idea how this can be done easily.
The GUI currently only supports right-click and then Copy followed by
editing the text when it's pasted. Obviously not easy.
This is one of those small things which would be nice to automate.
Using the experimental commands system then you could do it with the
following command:
{
name = 'Copy Serial';
input = 'formatted';
formatString = "${subject/Serial: (\\S*) .*/$1/}";
script = '#!/usr/bin/pbcopy\n';
keyEquivalent = "F";
uuid = 'C2561103-D9BA-43C5-AB4D-5AC7FDA5A77B';
}
This would allow you to just hit ⇧F and then the serial value
(XHGFSTW) would be on the pasteboard.
The problem is that there is currently no way you could have created
the above yourself (undocumented and no GUI), but you have been a
major contributor to the crowd funding campaign and you deserve your
own bundle of commands. I've attached a simple start. Unzip it and
then place it here:
~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Bundles/
(Also enable experimental 2.0 features in the General preferences
pane.)
For you and the rest of the mailing list, here is a quick dissection
of the command:
name = 'Copy Serial';
The name of the menu item placed in the Command menu.
input = 'formatted';
The input format. This tells MailMate that the input to the script
(stdin) should be the result of a format string based on the currently
selected message(s).
formatString = "${subject/Serial: (\\S*) .*/$1/}";
The formatString uses the subject of the message, but it's altered
using a regular expression substitution. This locates the serial
number in the subject and uses it as the result. (It is
incomprehensible if you have no experience with regular expressions.)
script = '#!/usr/bin/pbcopy\n';
The script to be executed is extremely simple. It's just a system
command used to put the input on the pasteboard.
keyEquivalent = "S";
The command can be executed using ⇧S (as an alternative to using the
menu item).
uuid = 'C2561103-D9BA-43C5-AB4D-5AC7FDA5A77B';
Each command must have a unique identifier.
Final note: I introduced the `formatted` input format mainly to easily
select a large number of messages and then retrieve a simple value
from each of them. For example, one could easily retrieve all sender
addresses and then send them through `sort | uniq -c | sort -r | head`
to get a list of the 10 most frequent senders.
--
Benny
[ARC.mmBundle.zip]
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