ScriptLIb: get text selection or message content

[Allen Watson]

Title: ScriptLIb: get text selection or message content

Here's another common routine for scripts that operate on message text, that gets selected text or, if none is selected, the entire message content. It assumes a message window is front and it is referenced in the variable "theMsg".

-- set theText to the selection, or if none, to the entire message
set theText to ""
try
   set theText to the selection as text
   set partial to true
end try
if theText = "" then
   set theText to the content of theMsg
   set partial to false
end if

-- do things to theText, then replace the original with the modified copy

 if partial then
     set the selection to theText
 else
    set the content of theMsg to theText
 end if

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