[MlMt] Resend-Help with a script to create an event from an email

[Torsten Grust]

On 7 Dec 2013, at 13:55, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote (with possible 
deletions):
> On 6 Dec 2013, at 22:35, Torsten Grust wrote:
>
>>> Now, I'm not sure exactly how you want this to work, but it's 
>>> certainly possible to create a command which based on the currently 
>>> selected message (or selected text in the message) can create an 
>>> event in BusyCal/iCal/Fantastical (3 more bundles to be created).
>>
>> How would a command receive the currently *selected* text (as opposed 
>> to the entire
>> message text)?
>
> The latest test versions actually provide selected text instead of the 
> canonical text when `canonical` is the input type and something is 
> selected, but I'm probably not going to continue to do that (don't 
> rely on it). I've also added a `selection` input type and I think I'm 
> going to keep that and then make this, optionally, fall back to the 
> whole text if there is no selection (like TextMate).

Ah. Thanks! Input type 'selection' works well as far as I can tell 
(build 3880).

>> Well, BusyCal as well as Fantastical come with quite sophisticated 
>> date parsers
>> that are exposed via the URL scheme and AppleScript, respectively.  
>> It could be an
>> option to simply rely on these (for now).
>
> I actually didn't ready the details of the BusyCal URL scheme. This 
> could perhaps work well.

Playing with it now.

Cheers,
   --Torsten

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| Torsten "Teggy" Grust
| Torsten.Grust at gmail.com
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