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

[Jeffrey Horn]

Thanks, Benny!

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Jeffrey Horn
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2013, at 08:04 AM, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
> On 7 Dec 2013, at 13:55, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > On 6 Dec 2013, at 22:35, Torsten Grust wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> 
> A quick update on this. Torsten provided me with basic bundles for 
> BusyCal and Fantastical (thanks!), and I've been working on a bundle for 
> Calendar. There is only 1 command in each of the bundles named “Create 
> Event”. All text of the currently selected message is taken as input, 
> but the range of selected text is also available to the commands. This 
> means that the commands base the default date on the selected text, and 
> if nothing is selected then MailMate tries to find a date itself (using 
> Apple's text parsers).
> 
> Warning: The BusyCal/Fantastical bundles most likely do not work right 
> now. I've made some changes and I haven't had time to test them yet. 
> I'll do that later tonight or first thing tomorrow, but I wanted some 
> users to be able to test the Calendar bundle before that.
> 
> There is also experimental support for SmartyPants which can be enabled 
> as follows:
> 
> 	defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmSmartyPantsEnabled -bool YES
> 
> Read the release notes for details on that. This was in no way 
> implemented because of the repeated mentions of it as a missing feature 
> on various popular podcasts ;-)
> 
> All of the above is available in the latest test release. I'll be online 
> again later tonight to answer any questions.
> 
> -- 
> Benny
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