Discussion on Gmail Macros | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by fgregg @ Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:44:56 -0600

fgregg — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:44:56 -0600

New version at http://blog.persistent.info/2007/11/macros-for-...

Archived Comments, replied by Andreas Serna @ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:35:12 -0600

Andreas Serna — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:35:12 -0600

For the top row of buttons, Gmail macros calls the "id=x" variable from HTML in the old Gmail, where x equals the following id's:
-Archive: act= ac_rc_^i
-Report Spam: ac_sp
-Delete: ac_tr
-Refresh: rfr

In new Gmail the HTML uses the parameter "act=x", where x equals the following numbers:
-Archive: 7
-Report Spam: 9
-Delete: 10
-Refresh:20

For compatibility with both versions, Gmail macros needs to be changed to call either one for the variables for each action.

Archived Comments, replied by Beau Gunderson @ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:59:21 -0600

Beau Gunderson — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:59:21 -0600

+1 for updating this to Gmail 2.0; this is the script that made Gmail so much more usable for me (with R for mark read and E for archive).

Archived Comments, replied by David Backeberg @ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:38:54 -0600

David Backeberg — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:38:54 -0600

Until we get an update Gmail Macros for Gmail 2.0, you can get back Gmail Macros functionality.

In the top right corner, at least right now, there's an option called "Older version" which reverts Gmail to the UI version when the Gmail Macros still worked.

Hooray for a workaround!

Archived Comments, replied by David Backeberg @ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:57:11 -0600

David Backeberg — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:57:11 -0600

Let's talk about exactly how it's broken, and maybe we can fix it ourselves.

I've noticed that pressing 'y' to archive is working fine.

But that pressing 'l' to label a message is NOT working. Has anybody noticed other problems?

Archived Comments, replied by Voyagerfan5761 @ Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:46:45 -0500

Voyagerfan5761 — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:46:45 -0500

Please tell me you'll be updating the code for the new Gmail interface? :)

Archived Comments, replied by Andreas Serna @ Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:06:54 -0500

Andreas Serna — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:06:54 -0500

Broken for today's firefox update.

Archived Comments, replied by pax @ Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:31:33 -0500

pax — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:31:33 -0500

Please help a noob.
I want to make a macro that:
Forwards the selected message to a predefined address, applies a label, then archives the message.

I have a office@xxx mailbox and I want to forward the messages to the proper people (and keep a count of the forwards) - a macro would definetly improve my life.

Which lines need to be changed?
Thank you.

Archived Comments, replied by Samat Galimov @ Fri, 25 May 2007 22:19:19 -0500

Samat Galimov — Fri, 25 May 2007 22:19:19 -0500

Guys, updated version of the script if found in his blog!
Best regards... :)

Archived Comments, replied by theponywars @ Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:54:50 -0500

theponywars — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:54:50 -0500

this is a very good and useful script

Archived Comments, replied by Jim Fitzpatrick @ Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:33:49 -0500

Jim Fitzpatrick — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:33:49 -0500

@Mahesh: Press 'h' to see a list of all the available shortcut keys. If you still aren't getting this, try installing the script from persistent info directly.

Archived Comments, replied by Mahesh S @ Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:53:27 -0600

Mahesh S — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:53:27 -0600

Hi I am new to this greasemonkey scripts. could anyone please tell me what all shortcuts are enabled after installing this script. I installed this gmail macros after installing the grease monkey firefox extension, but I still haven't got access to any shortcuts while using gmail :(.

Archived Comments, replied by Gurjeet Singh @ Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:54:25 -0600

Gurjeet Singh — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:54:25 -0600

One of the limitations of this script has been that you have to keep the "Labels" node/table open for it to pickup your user-defined labels; and I don't like keeping my labels table/node open. If you have it closed, then you can Goto/Label only the standard labels.

So, yesterday I sat down hacking the JavaScript, and came up with the following fix. Now, if the "Labels" node is closed, then it will first opne it, perform your action (goto/label), and then close it back again. Here it goes:

Note to non-JS/novice guys: and tag are just delimiters, do not add them to your script; add just what is between them.

Declare a global variable (preferably just before "function beginLabelAction()"):

var closeLabels = false;

Now, add the following 4 lines at the beginning of "function beginLabelAction()":

if (document.getElementById("nt_0").nextSibling == null){ closeLabels = true; simulateClick(document.getElementById("nt_0"), "click"); }

Now, at the end of "function endLabelAction()", add the following 4 lines:

if (closeLabels == true) { closeLabels = false; simulateClick(document.getElementById("nt_0"), "click"); }

I am myself pretty much a novice at JS, so raising a request in the community (here) for this feature was the easiest way to get this functionality. But yesterday, I decided that it was high time that I too dirtied my hands with JS. So I set off debugging GMail's DOM and JS using the firefox's built in DOM Inspector. I tried my hands on the Venkman debugger too, but that didn't prove of much help. I think 3 hours of my weekend afternoon were put to good use; you decide it.

I have been a great fan of the GMmacros script, and hope this adds more value to it.

Best regards,
Gurjeet.

Archived Comments, replied by Rigz @ Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:42:48 -0600

Rigz — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:42:48 -0600

p.s. to install the posted scipt, you need to right click > View User Script Source

Archived Comments, replied by Rigz @ Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:38:48 -0600

Rigz — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:38:48 -0600

Mihai seems to be too busy to fix it. well, i found a post on the author's page about a group started for gmail scripts (very experimental). Thanks Scott for pointing it out.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/gmail-power...

The script seems to work just great as it was first intended by the original author. Thanks to Karl/Anand/Brent for tweakin 'em up!

Archived Comments, replied by madhatter 2 @ Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:34:22 -0500

madhatter 2 — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:34:22 -0500

Waiting for an updated version, too.
Still wondering what might have caused it not working any longer. Already tried to switch back to an older version of greasemonkey, with no success...

Archived Comments, replied by Rigz @ Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:46:36 -0500

Rigz — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:46:36 -0500

used to work smoothly until a few days ago when the page didnt respond to goto (g) functions. applied this updated one and nothing seems to work now, not even the quicksilver... needs a fix, yet again. will keep comin back...

Archived Comments, replied by Edgar DSouza @ Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:08:44 -0500

Edgar DSouza — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:08:44 -0500

Does this silly comment display mechanism not even honor
tags? How is anyone supposed to put together a decent- looking comment??? Ed.

Archived Comments, replied by Edgar DSouza @ Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:07:17 -0500

Edgar DSouza — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:07:17 -0500

I tooled around with the gmailmacros.user.js file in my ~/.mozilla/firefox/<some_weird_name>.default/gm_scripts/ folder and seem to have gotten it working again

Near the beginning of the file, I found
: const LABEL_ACTIONS = {
// g: go to label
71: function(labelName) {

Near the bottom of this small function is:
// event.target gets set to the document (and is read-only, so we can't set
// it by hand). Unfortunately, labelDiv.createEvent doesn't work either.
// However, Gmail checks for both srcElement and target, so we can fake
// it this way.
event.srcElement = labelDiv;
document.dispatchEvent(event);

I have changed the last line shown above - document.dispatchEvent:
//document.dispatchEvent(event);
labelDiv.dispatchEvent(event);

And now it seems to be working for me, although I don't know if it will stop working again tomorrow morning :-/

Ed.</some_weird_name>

Archived Comments, replied by Edgar DSouza @ Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:57:32 -0500

Edgar DSouza — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:57:32 -0500

Using Firefox 1.5.0.3 on Mandriva 2006. The "g" function to goto labels is my primary interest in this script. After installing, it worked fine for a day. The next day, though "g" shows the "Label Selector 9000" "popup", and it auto-completes label names, it did not actually go to that label. Refreshing the Gmail page and disabling, then re-enabling GreaseMonkey got it working again, for the whole day.
On day 3, it has stopped working totally, and no variation of day 2's procedure seems to work.

I fetched the patch mentioned by Lady Madonna, and tried to patch the js file with "patch gmailmacros.user.js /home/edgar/dl/gmail-macros-fix20060318.patch" but this failed, with error messages stating 2 out of 2 hunks failed. With good reason, since this patch appears to be for an earlier version of the Macros script.

I monitored the Javascript Console while invoking the "g" functions, but no error is reported from this JS file. It just doesn't work.
Apparently others have experienced intermittent failures too...

Can the author please help?

Thanks,
Ed.

Archived Comments, replied by Boris Yim @ Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:20:27 -0500

Boris Yim — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:20:27 -0500

Need to change MARK_AS_UNREAD to "ur".

Archived Comments, replied by ajg23 @ Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:27:41 -0500

ajg23 — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:27:41 -0500

Fantastic scripts! Two suggestions:

1) "P" (purge) gets in the way of "n"/"p" in conversation view (to move among msgs in conversation)! I recommend changing this to another shortcut.

2) I think this would be revolutionary: ability to take action on the item AT THE CARET without having to "X" it and without interfering with whatever *is* "X"'d...Perhaps <shift>+key could accomplish this. Examples:

===Message list view===
<shift>+T: trash conversation AT CARET
<shift>+E: archive conversation AT CARET

===Conversation view===
<shift>+T: trash message AT CARET
<shift>+E: archive message AT CARET

Know this would be more of a challenge but you've gotta admit it would be useful!</shift></shift></shift></shift></shift>

Archived Comments, replied by Doug Harris @ Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:46:43 -0500

Doug Harris — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:46:43 -0500

I installed in early April on machine #1 and it worked fine. In the past month or so, I installed on machines #2 & 3 and it didn't work.

I copied the js file from #1 to #2 and it works on #2. The working version is the version from the "Original Source Location" link on this page (pointing to http://persistent.info/greasemonkey/gmail-macro...).

Is anybody else having similar experiences?

Archived Comments, replied by Georges Dupéron @ Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:15:07 -0500

Georges Dupéron — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:15:07 -0500

A nice & accessible reminder for shortcuts in the gmail interface is welcome.
Also, I'd love to have a vim-like set of commands for editing the text & managing messages, etc. (visual selection of messages using arrow keys would be wonderfull).
Thanx for he script! It's realy cool.

Archived Comments, replied by mbaluyos @ Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:47:01 -0600

mbaluyos — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:47:01 -0600

hmmm... purge (mark as read, archive) doesn't work anymore.