On 11/11/02 2:18 PM, "Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So...
>
> What the heck is "Reply Into, Quoting From"?
>
> Well, RIQF begins to work after you've started a reply in your normal
> preferred way. Once that reply is started, then you can go back to your
> messages, select some text in any message, and then run the script to have
> that text, along with a proper attribution, inserted into the already-open
> reply.
>
> Lather, Rinse, Repeat until you are finished constructing your reply, with
> as many "RIQF" runs as you want to quote other people.
>
> (I like this method, especially with mail lists and newsgroups, because I
> often want to reply to what several posters have said, without making new
> replies for each one, and without having to manually copy, paste as
> quotation, and repeat until I'm finished.)
>
>
> Limitations (on my script and scripting ability, as it now stands, but that
> I'm working on):
>
> 1. The insertion of your selected text is not internet quoted (as if you had
> run the "paste as quotation" menu command). I want it to be, but I don't' be
> knowin' how right now. Meaning, I'd still like to have the > markers applied
> properly, but I've pseudo-marked the insertions with enough visual clarity
> to transfer the same meaning to a reader.
That's complicated but not so bad as it might be. Plain-text replies are
hard-wrapped at 76 characters or the nearest word end before that, precisely
so there's still room for up to 4 > characters. (The real, true limit is
80.) So if you're quoting from a received plain-text message, you just have
to get every paragraph of the excerpt, check whether it already starts with
">". If it does, prefix ">", if not, prefix "> " (add a space). Feed that
back into (concatenate to) a new cumulative string or to a list which you
convert to a string when done with {return} delimiters. It's MUCH harder if
you're quoting from an HTML message (or a saved draft message of your own),
which is soft-wrapped. Then you need very complicated routines for
hard-wrapping. See my early script "Reply with CC" for Outlook Express,
before we had a 'reply to' command in Entourage.
>
> 2. Preference for Wording of the Attribution:
>
> Currently, the formatting of the author/msg attribution uses hard-wired
> values for construction.
>
> I have stored two bits of text in two variables, in preparation for
> preference changes, so as it stands now, you can manually (in the script)
> just change two strings at the top to get a differently flavored
> attribution. No other editing is needed.
Since there is no way in OS X to detect modifier keys, you need to write a
separate PREFS script to load, change a property and store the main script.
See any of my many X scripts that have PREFS scripts with them (Edit and
Resend X REFS is one of the simpler ones.)
>
> As I have it constructed, you get this:
>
> "And also, in a message or post titled " ....... " said:"
>
> 3. I can't figure out how to move the cursor to the end of the reply, so
> right now the user's current preferences determine whether the multiple RIQF
> insertions are inserted at the end of the message or the beginning. I
> changed my preferences from MY preference of "insertion point before" just
> so this script would put everything at the bottom.
>
>
There's no way to do that in OS X after the reply message is already
created. Take a look at my "Reply Insertion Reversed" script for how to do
it when creating the reply. (All this sort of thing was made easier in OS
8/9 where there were keypress emulation scripting additions which could do
it.)
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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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