[MlMt] CopyLink Bundle/Commands

[Dean Jackson]

Hi Benny,

I'd be happy for it to become (part of) a default bundle.

The RTF was a pain to get working. The tricky bit was encoding non-ASCII 
characters correctly (I found [a 
library](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rtfunicode) that does it for you). 
It works fine with non-ASCII European characters at any rate, and with 
all the apps I've tried pasting in.

— Dean

On 8 Aug 2015, at 1:11, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 7 Aug 2015, at 23:55, Dean Jackson wrote:
>
>> I wrote [a MailMate 
>> bundle](https://github.com/deanishe/CopyLink.mmBundle) that copies a 
>> `message://` link to the selected message to the clipboard. The 
>> "special feature" is that it copies the link as multiple data types 
>> (HTML, rich text, plain text and URL), so if you paste it into an app 
>> that understands HTML or rich text, you'll see the message subject as 
>> the link text:
>>
>> ![](cid:62144F94-19A3-4F36-B1DB-8A7738F105B1 at deanishe.net "link.png")
>>
>> There's an additional **Copy Email Markdown Link** that replaces the 
>> plain text version with a Markdown-formatted link, i.e. 
>> `[<subject>](<message://url>)`
>>
>> I'd love to know what you think.
>
> Thanks for sharing! I'm sure some users are going to find it useful. 
> It might also be worth considering to let it replace the current 
> (hardcoded) menu item, e.g., making it part of a bundle enabled by 
> default. Would you allow that?
>
> I have a vague recollection that I tried providing an RTF variant at 
> some point, but for some reason I don't think it worked well. I've 
> forgotten why (if it's a problem then I guess its generation could be 
> made optional).
>
>
> -- 
> Benny
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