[MlMt] Partial copy of incoming subject

[mailmate]

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
>
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