On or near 2/22/01 8:36 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> On 2/22/01 7:39 AM, "Sherman Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Gee, this script, and the complementary one by Paul, are wonderful. Thanks
>> guys!
>>
>
> Pleasure. Just to mention that my script (Open Contact Name) has a few extra
> handles: for example, you can select a name, email or 'name <email>'
> combination on the screen and it will open up the contact if it exists or
> make you a new one if it doesn't. I'm finding that very useful when people
> send me the name and email address of a third person: just select the
>
> Some Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> on the screen, press option-command-O and a new contact is made that has
> first name, last name and email address correctly, and opens up. So it's
> sort of like "Add Sender to Address Book", except that it works not just
> with the sender, but with anybody. (And if you select nothing, it opens up
> the sender instead.) And opens it up.
Thanks for explaining what it does, Paul. I saw the code in there for
creating a new contact but wasn't sure how it was invoked. Very useful!
> Or you can do the "type in a few
> letters", like Allen's, which he says is faster than mine if you type in the
> whole name. Since I'm a really lousy typist, I much prefer then "auto-fill"
> of just typing in 3 or 4 letters: by the time I'd typed in the whole name, i
> might as well have gone to the Address Book and searched!
>
In another incarnation I used to be a "Kelly Girl," if anybody remembers
that politically incorrect nomenclature. (I.e., I was an office temp in the
days when male office temps were virtually unknown.) I type fast. I can type
"Paul Berkowitz" in about 2 seconds. If I just type "berk" and let the
script search, it can take 4 or 5 seconds. So, I added the full name lookup
as the first quick try at interpreting user input.
> Anyway, it's one of about only 5 scripts of my own that I use myself, every
> day.
But, I'm with you in liking auto-fill. I love it in addressing E-mail. I
wrote my "Open Folder" and "File Msgs in Folder" scripts to allow
identifying a folder by its first couple of letters for that reason. Those
are two of my own scripts I use dozens of times a day. I find I don't
require access to the Address Book more than a couple of times a day,
usually, so I had almost forgotten your script <and my own> until you posted
an update!
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