On 2014-09-24 16:42, Steve Purcell writes: > Alan Schmitt writes: >> I just tested it with the current version and I'm not seeing this >> problem. Is there something special about that email that breaks, or are >> you seeing problems with every email? > > I see it with every mail. I'm on OS X 10.9.5, but the problem was also > present on 10.9.4. I'm also on 10.9.5. I was probably on 10.9.4 when I tweaked that code. > The "substring" part of the removed code led to the trimming of the > characters at each end, so it's not clear to me how it could ever have > worked, unless the output is routinely wrapped in quotes on others' > machines. This was the case here: the string returned by the AppleScript had quotes (and it still does). For instance, with the message you mention, the call to org-as-get-selected-mail returns this (doing a debug): Result: "\"message://2.b2af716655bbac583727@NY-WEB01::split::Private beta invitation for Emacs Q&A site - Area 51 - Stack Exchange\"" > Mysterious indeed. > > In any case, there were a few blocks of identical-looking code dotted > around the file: the block appears to have been wisely extracted into > org-mac-paste-applescript-links, but the duplicate code hasn't been > replaced with a call to that function. So this patch does so for the > Mail case, and the same fix should also probably be made in > org-mac-outlook-message-get-links. It works well for grabbing a single message, but it breaks when grabbing several. Here is one such broken result: [[message://9670A832-D0B3-46A8-96BF-05C30D85085D@gmail.com][Re: De passage ˆ San Jose"]] [["message://4B980C40-DB9A-47A7-95A7-17BB8CF8167F@gmail.com][Re: De passage ˆ San Jose]] The string returned by the AppleScript was this: Result: "\"message://4B980C40-DB9A-47A7-95A7-17BB8CF8167F@gmail.com::split::Re: De passage \210 San Jose\nmessage://9670A832-D0B3-46A8-96BF-05C30D85085D@gmail.com::split::Re: De passage \210 San Jose\"" Does it work on your machine with several messages selected? Best, Alan -- OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7