[MlMt] determining whether Markdown is active

[John Cooper]

I see—I read carelessly. I think the "slow and clumsy" KM method you 
described is the only KM-centric solution. I understand your question 
now.

Shoshanna Green wrote (at 10:47 on 17 Nov 2015):

> No, the question isn't whether MailMate is running, or at the front, 
> or anything like that; the question is whether Markdown is active in 
> the message being composed. I'm talking about the popup menu in the 
> bar below the headers in the Composer window, with options that are 
> revealed when you choose Format -- Show Markup, and that are described 
> in the manual at 
> <http://manual.mailmate-app.com/preferences.html#markup_support>.
>
> On 17 Nov 2015, at 13:32, John Cooper wrote:
>
>> If I understand you correctly, Shoshanna, this is a KM question 
>> rather than a MailMate question: you should be able to use an "If 
>> Then Else" condition in your KM macro, and test for the condition 
>> "MailMate is at the front" or "MailMate is running."
>>
>> Shoshanna Green wrote (at 10:07 on 17 Nov 2015):
>>
>>> Is there a way to programmatically determine whether Markdown is 
>>> active in the current message draft?
>>>
>>> I'm trying to write a Keyboard Maestro macro that takes certain 
>>> actions depending on whether or not Markdown is active, and the 
>>> popup menu at the top of a message draft isn't recognized by KM as a 
>>> menu, a button, or anything else. I have to have KM search the 
>>> screen for the graphic image of the "Plain text" option and act 
>>> according to whether it's found or not, which is slow and clumsy. Is 
>>> there an environment variable, an Applescript or other script query, 
>>> a menu item whose state is dependent on whether Markdown is active, 
>>> anything I can use to make this determination more elegantly?
>>>
>>> Shoshanna Green
>>> shoshannag at gmail.com
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