Comments on: Turning Off Apple Data Detectors in Mail

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:02:28 +0000

Main reason to disable it is that the related process "PatternsCompiler" hogs the CPU for 30 seconds when I open Mail or other apps.

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By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:39:23 +0000

Interesting. It was not until I read this that it occurred to me that there might be folk who don't like or use the ADD - personally, I love them, and use it often, which suggests that there is a fit between my needs and the ways I use Mail.app, and the design of ADD in Mail.app.

This suggests that what is missing, really, is a preference option exposed through the Mail.app GUI to turn ADD on and off.

Thanks for tracking this down though, I'll tuck the tip away for future reference.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:37:22 +0000

Mouser: It's not that I can’t select the text, but that it’s more work—most specifically when there are adjacent detected regions and I want to start the selection on the boundary. Initially, Mail draws the pop-up triangle right where I want to click. I have to move the cursor to one side in order to chase the dotted highlight to the other detected region, then move the cursor back to where I wanted to start the selection. Since I never actually use the pop-up, there’s no reason to go through the frustration of trying to avoid it.

By: Mouser

Mouser — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:23:54 +0000

Not needing the feature...fair enough, not wanting the feature, also fair, just wanting to see what you can hack, very cool, but not being able to select text suggests you need some remedial mousing skills training.

try this:

http://www.pbclibrary.org/mousing/mousercise.htm

With my superior mousing skills I can select the entire section detected, a sub-selection, part of the detected section and something before or after the detected area or both. Here is a tip, when wanting to selecting text in the detected area click ANYWHERE in the detected region EXCEPT for the pull-down box.

By: Turn off Data Detectors in Mail.app

Turn off Data Detectors in Mail.app — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:51:49 +0000

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By: Harris

Harris — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:56:36 +0000

this is totally unnecessary. You should all just learn how to select something. Your amputating the finger to trim the fingernail, good work.

By: CrunchGear » Archive » Disable Mail.app’s data detectors

CrunchGear » Archive » Disable Mail.app’s data detectors — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:56:18 +0000

[...] you’d want to do this I can’t fathom - the data detectors are probably the best feature in Mail - but you can turn [...]