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fix Mail keyboard shortcuts containing > in Lion
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'plist'
# This is a fix for the bug filed as Radar #1288404 with Apple.
# http://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=1288404
# So, in Snow Leopard, I always set up Mail.app to have keyboard shortucts
# for my "From" email addresses. You can create your own in the Keyboard
# system preference pane by entering your email address (like "Andre Arko
# <andre@arko.net>") as the Menu Title. I used ⌃1, ⌃2, etc for each of my
# email addresses, so I could change which address the email would be sent
# from. Lion introduces a new bug that corrupts any keyboard shortcut whose
# menu title contains an angle bracket. The menu title loses the closing
# angle bracket, and gains the character "\e" at the beginning and end. This
# happens any time you open the Keyboard prefpane to change any other
# shortcut, which is really annoying. So I wrote this script to
# automatically fix my Mail shortcuts after I've done that.
path = File.expand_path("~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist")
# Convert to XML plist so the plist gem can read it
system("plutil -convert xml1 '#{path}'")
# Parse the plist into a hash
prefs = Plist.parse_xml(path)
# Gsub away the buggy values from the Lion Keyboard.prefpane
user_keys = prefs["NSUserKeyEquivalents"]
user_keys.keys.each do |key|
shortcut = user_keys.delete(key)
fixed_key = key.gsub(/\e(.*?)\e/, '\1>')
user_keys[fixed_key] = shortcut
end
# Write out the fixed plist as XML
File.open(path, "w"){|f| f.write(prefs.to_plist) }
# Convert the XML plist back to binary for Mail.app
system("plutil -convert binary1 '#{path}'")
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jbenet commented Sep 19, 2011

Thank you for writing this!

Check out https://gist.github.com/1225867/c72395db3b9623bdbdb71db0d6973e8321ec9ef2 for binary plist + sparrow support.

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oh; right. I had fixed this to handle binary plists, but forgot to update the gist. thanks for the reminder!

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