Ability to message yourself

[skela]

It would be good to be able to message yourself using imsg. That way you could write scripts, that used imsg, to notify you when they are complete etc.

[chrisfsampaio]

That's a cool idea! It's already possible to do that, but I think it would be handy to have an one-line command that would send the message to yourself.

I'll mark that as an enhancement so that I can work on that when I have time. Feel free to issue a pull request if you feel like it! :smile:

[skela]

I had a quick look at it myself, if I try something like:

osascript -e 'tell application "Messages" to send "This is a message" to buddy "Alek Slater"'

I get the following error:

31:78: execution error: Messages got an error: Can't send a message to yourself. (1)

[skela]

I'll keep playing with it to see if I can find a command that works. My knowledge of osascript and ruby are very limited though. Is there a way to ask the Messages app which commands it accepts via osascript?

[chrisfsampaio]

Yes, you can open the application 'AppleScript', then go to 'open dictionary' and then select the Messages application 😊

— Sent from Mailbox

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Alek Slater [email protected] wrote:

I'll keep playing with it though to see if I can find a command that works. My knowledge of osascript and ruby are very limited though. Is there a way to ask the Messages app which commands it accepts via osascript?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/chrisfsampaio/imsg/issues/37#issuecomment-63205357

[skela]

Wow, excellent, always wondered how people somehow knew what to tell applications to do.