On 2025-07-29 at 20:54:13 UTC-0400 (Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:54:13 +1000)
leo <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
Hello fellow MailMaters
Enjoying MailMate? I do so immensely! š
However, there are little things I cannot get to work. So currently I
try to edit my old MailMate keybindings. I have them in the (old?)
binary format. (I edited them as XML, converting back and forth with
`plutil`.)
Now I see MailMateās default plist files (`Gmail.plist`,
`Postbox.plist` and `Standard.plist`) are in a JSON-like style.
`Standard.plist` starts e.g. like this:
```
{
"\UF728" = "deleteMessage:"; // ā¦
" " = "scrollPageDownOrNextMessage:"; // Space (alternatively it
can be bound to scrollPageDown: or scrollPageDownOrNextUnreadMessage:)
"$ " = "scrollPageUp:"; // Shift-space
...
```
Going forward I would like to convert my keybindings to this new
format.
It is actually a very old format: NeXT property list.
So I tried on the command line
plutil -convert json Leos.plist
But the output is in a different format (even more ājsonicā than
the one above) It looks like this:
[...]
**Trouble is, this format doesnāt seem to be readable by MailMate.**
**How can I convert my binary plist files into the JSON-like format
the default files use?**
As far as I know, there is no way. MailMate does understand the 'xml1'
format produced by plutil.
--
Bill Cole
[email protected] or [email protected]
(AKA @[email protected] and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
addresses)
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