Adding Links in Snow Leopard's Mail
Apple Mail in Snow Leopard now has a Command-key shortcut for adding a link to an email.
If you use plain-text email, this will not be helpful at all, but if you send styled email, it's a nice shortcut for adding URLs to your email messages. Simply select the word(s) you want to make into a link, press Command-K, and enter the URL to build into the link.
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John Baxter
John Baxter <jwbaxter@pt.olympus.net> writes:
I've run into something that grammar mavens may find interesting. Consider this correct [English version] AppleScript code:
tell word 4 of paragraph 2 of document 1 of application "Scriptable Text Editor" get it's text end tellHere, Apple has managed to make AppleScript syntax so English-like that it commits the all-too-common mistake of using "it's" instead of "its" as the possessive.
You can of course also write that statement as:
get the text of itThat sounds terribly stilted, but at least avoids the incorrect use of the contraction in place of the possessive. One of the amusing things is that Apple has the potential of running into such problems in each language for which they provide an AppleScript dialect
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