Scripting Apple Mail

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Hey Ilya,

Bracketing the text with three back-ticks – ``` (Lower-case of the tilde ~ key.)

```
tell application "Mail"
   tell (some message viewer whose index is 1)
      set msg to item 1 of (get selected messages)
   end tell
end tell
```

Will cause the text to render as code.

tell application "Mail"
   tell (some message viewer whose index is 1)
      set msg to item 1 of (get selected messages)
   end tell
end tell

You can also add the type of code to the first back-tick line.

Try:

```applescript
your code
```

```text
your code
```

```bash
your code
```

And see the difference.

I believe the default for just three back-ticks is AppleScript, although Peter would have to confirm.

My post here would be worth reading, and some of the other conversation:

Best Practices for GUI Scripting

There's a long thread on the Keyboard Maestro forum:

Learning & Using AppleScript & JavaScript for Automation (JXA)

There's the Scripting page on the Keyboard Maestro wiki.

I have about 5 books on AppleScript myself.

I usually recommend these two:

"Learn AppleScript: The Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X"
"AppleScript: The Definitive Guide"

I've heard good things about “AppleScript 1,2,3”, although I haven't had my hands on it.

Apple broke AppleScripting signatures in Sierra and hasn't fixed it.

-Chris

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