My workflow is very email-centric and I've often wished I could start a new email in Mail by pressing a keyboard combo in any program. I use QuickSilver, and the regular way of searching for a contact's email address and then creating a new mail that way seems awkward to me compared to the email address completion Mail.app offers.
After many tries, I finally found out how to get Mail.app to open a new message window using AppleScript:
[robg adds: This also works in 10.5, and probably many releases before that. Spark is one of many program you can use to create the keyboard shortcut. In 10.6, you could also create this as a Service using Automator, and assign a keyboard shortcut in the Keyboard Shortcut's System Preferences panel.]
After many tries, I finally found out how to get Mail.app to open a new message window using AppleScript:
tell application "Mail"
set t to make new outgoing message
set visible of t to true
activate
end tell[robg adds: This also works in 10.5, and probably many releases before that. Spark is one of many program you can use to create the keyboard shortcut. In 10.6, you could also create this as a Service using Automator, and assign a keyboard shortcut in the Keyboard Shortcut's System Preferences panel.]
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