Over the weekend, I was testing how some of our apps work when the CPUs are busy. Unlike the Transformations menu, the Keyboard Maestro solution will work in any app where you can copy and paste text. While I don't believe it's possible to modify the Transformations menu, it's pretty easy to use Keyboard Maestro to build a "Sentence Case" transformation…or more usefully, as seen at right, a palette with many more transformations. The transformations are buried in a sub-menu, requiring lots of mouse navigation to reach.Only three very basic transformations (upper, lower, capitalize) are supported.Not all apps have a Transformations menu.In addition to not offering sentence case, the Transformations menu has a few other drawbacks: Is there a way in Terminal, or maybe Keyboard Maestro to add this option to Transformations? It seems to me that the given choices have rather limited uses. However, there is no option to perform, "Sentence Case", i.e., capitalize the first letter of the first word, and keep all other words in lower case. Today in The Mac Observer Melissa Holt wrote about using the TextEdit/ Edit/ Transformations command to change the case of a sentence or paragraph. After seeing this article, a reader named Hunter wrote to me with this comment: Recently, Melissa Holt wrote about transforming text via the Transformations menu. So for now, I have to rely on Spotlight to search Mail…or a third-party app, but more on that in a bit. So something's wrong, but I don't know exactly what it is, nor how to fix it. But it's a no go for me, and I know, for others. ![]() ![]() I've heard from others that search in Mail works for them. (And yes, I let the index complete its rebuild, which took hours.) Searching on even one word of the phrase, like Normalization, also finds no matches.Īgain, I know what you're thinking: "Oh, I bet the Mail index is screwed up." Nope even after rebuilding the index on all 250,000+ messages in my database, no matches are found. Wait, I know what you're thinking: "Ahh, look, it's in quotes!" Doesn't matter searching Mail for "Pasteboard Normalization Interval" still results in zero matches. Not one but two email messages match my search, and provided the needed syntax for the command. So clearly, no emails in my database contain the words I'm looking for, right? Here's the exact same search, run in Spotlight: Update: See this post for a possible solution.īased on a document on my hard drive, I knew the name of the default was Pasteboard Normalization Interval, but I couldn't remember the syntax of the defaults write command to set its value.
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