On 24 Jan 2023, at 4:53, John Cooper wrote:
I also occasionally use a Mac app called "Prefs Editor" to browse and
edit a .plist file. It's still available at
http://apps.tempel.org/PrefsEditor/.
Using Prefs Editor is actually the only reliable way to edit plist
contents without using the `def
John Doherty via mailmate wrote (at 8:39 PM on Monday, January 23, 2023):
> On Mon 2023-01-23 09:12 PM MST -0700, wrote:
>
>> $ file ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist
>>> /Users//Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist: Apple binary
>>> property list
>>>
>>> Do not know w
On 2023-01-23 at 23:39:44 UTC-0500 (Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:39:44 -0700)
John Doherty via mailmate
is rumored to have said:
But bbedit does in fact open it just fine. I think it must be doing
some magic behind the scenes, maybe based on plutil or equivalent. The
user manual says:
BBEdit transpar
On 2023-01-23 at 23:12:38 UTC-0500 (Mon, 23 Jan 2023 20:12:38 -0800)
John Cooper
is rumored to have said:
I think the "binary" designation is just a way to keep text programs
from understanding the file as a text-based file.
No, if 'file' says so, it's a binary plist:
~$ file Library/Prefer
On Mon 2023-01-23 09:12 PM MST -0700,
wrote:
$ file ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist
/Users//Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist: Apple
binary property list
Do not know when "old-style ASCII" plists were superseded by "Apple
binary."
I don't think it's a matt
On 24 Jan 2023, at 14:50, John Doherty via mailmate wrote:
Do not know when "old-style ASCII" plists were superseded by "Apple
binary."
They have coexisted for a very long time and to all intents and purposes
are equivalent.
I don’t believe the original readable form is ever going away, tho
John Doherty via mailmate wrote (at 7:50 PM on Monday, January 23, 2023):
> On Mon 2023-01-23 08:39 PM MST -0700, wrote:
>
>> Glenn Parker wrote (at 6:09 PM on Monday, January 23, 2023):
>>
>>> On 23 Jan 2023, at 19:13, John Cooper wrote:
But why bother with counters.txt and stdout and stdin
On Mon 2023-01-23 08:39 PM MST -0700,
wrote:
Glenn Parker wrote (at 6:09 PM on Monday, January 23, 2023):
On 23 Jan 2023, at 19:13, John Cooper wrote:
But why bother with counters.txt and stdout and stdin? I would
suggest quitting MailMate, making a copy of
~/Library/Preferences/com.freron
Glenn Parker wrote (at 6:09 PM on Monday, January 23, 2023):
On 23 Jan 2023, at 19:13, John Cooper wrote:
But why bother with counters.txt and stdout and stdin? I would
suggest quitting MailMate, making a copy of
~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist, editing the copy
directly in a
On 24 Jan 2023, at 13:09, Glenn Parker wrote:
On 23 Jan 2023, at 19:13, John Cooper wrote:
But why bother with counters.txt and stdout and stdin? I would
suggest quitting MailMate, making a copy of
~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist, editing the copy
directly in a reliable text e
On 23 Jan 2023, at 19:13, John Cooper wrote:
> But why bother with counters.txt and stdout and stdin? I would suggest
> quitting MailMate, making a copy of
> ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist, editing the copy directly in
> a reliable text editor such as BBEdit…
You could try that
Glenn Parker wrote (at 3:55 PM on Monday, January 23, 2023):
> Editing these color values using “defaults” will be trickier but the gist of
> it is, in a terminal window:
>
> defaults read com.freron.MailMate MmCounters2 > counters.txt
> ### Quit the MailMate app.
> ### Edit counters.
On 8 Jan 2023, at 20:10, Randy Bush wrote:
how does one choose the color of the counters in the menu bar?
I don’t believe there is a user-friendly way to do this.
However, as with practically everything else in MailMate, there is a
hidden configuration setting. Examining the output of “defau
how does one choose the color of the counters in the menu bar?
randy
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i have three major inboxen (not counting procmail filtered boxes) what
is the hack to set the color for each counter in the menu bar?
randy
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