searching address book (was Re: [TxMt] create email from document)

[Grant Hollingworth]

* Oliver Taylor <oliver at ollieman.net> [2006-11-07 01:04]:
>Something really interesting would be a way to lookup email addresses  
>in the users' address book, though I have no idea if this is even  
>possible.

That's a good idea.  I made a simple version using contacts[1], which doesn't require Address Book to be open.  I put it in the Text bundle because it seems applicable everywhere.  Typing ctrl-shift-cmd-a (what's the easiest way of typing those key glyphs?) will replace the current selection or word with a name and email address returned by contacts.

TODO:

* pop up a list for multiple matches, instead of just using the first one
* use osascript as a backup
* wrap name in quotation marks if necessary
* don't return error message on failure

[1] http://gnufoo.org/contacts/
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