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

[Brett Terpstra]

Yeah, I had considered that, but there was no challenge there ;-).   
What I ended up wanting to do with Oliver's idea was to create an  
integrated command that every TextMate user could run regardless of  
what 3rd party apps they had installed.  That's why I put the time  
into the Applescript, with the assumption of course, that the user  
was using or at least syncing with Address Book.  I like the versions  
with contacts and lbdb, too.  I think the functionality should be  
available to people who aren't using Quicksilver (do those people  
exist?).  Thanks for pointing it out, though, and it may end up being  
the better solution for some.

There have been a few commands, like this one, that I've put some  
effort in to without any real intention of making daily use of them.   
I think turning TM into a fully functioning mail application is a  
pretty obscure project, but probably no more so than creating a  
blogging app, which I find *extremely* interesting and useful.  What  
I would like to work on is creating HTML emails from HTML documents  
with text alternatives.  I am required by some clients to create  
newsletters... well, I won't go into it, but it would be a nice feature.

Brett

On Nov 8, 2006, at 8:08 AM, Rob McBroom wrote:

> I'm sure everyone has their preference on how this should work, but  
> I just wanted to point out that there's existing functionality in  
> Quicksilver that could be used here (and it would be available  
> system wide, not just in TextMate). With Quicksilver you could:
>
> * Select your message text (in any application)
>   ⌘⎋
>   ⇥
>   Compose (Email To…)
>   ⇥
>   Type part of a recipient's name
>   ↩
>
> Or, if you were trying to populate a header line, like "To: ", you  
> could:
>
> * Invoke Quicksilver
>   Search for a contact
>   →
>   Choose the right e-mail address
>   ⇥
>   Paste
>   ↩
>
> I'm not sure if I'm making it sound complicated or not, but the  
> process is pretty fast in practice.
>
> Rob
>
>
>
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