Pasting to Mail.app (Format > Indentation) format

Bike Outliner
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PS if you wanted to paste a Bike-copied clipboard into Mail in Mail’s Bulleted List format, then you could experiment with something like this Keyboard Maestro macro, which uses only the Bike HTML pasteboard item, with a KM paste action:

Paste Bike clipboard into Mail as bullet nest.kmmacros.zip (2.1 KB)

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(() => {
    "use strict";

    ObjC.import("AppKit");

    const main = () =>
        bindLR(
            clipOfTypeLR("com.hogbaysoftware.bike.xml")
        )(
            setClipOfTextType("public.html")
        );

    // --------------------- GENERIC ---------------------

    // Left :: a -> Either a b
    const Left = x => ({
        type: "Either",
        Left: x
    });

    // Right :: b -> Either a b
    const Right = x => ({
        type: "Either",
        Right: x
    });

    // bindLR (>>=) :: Either a ->
    // (a -> Either b) -> Either b
    const bindLR = m =>
        mf => m.Left ? (
            m
        ) : mf(m.Right);

    // clipOfTypeLR :: String -> Either String String
    const clipOfTypeLR = utiOrBundleID => {
        const
            clip = ObjC.deepUnwrap(
                $.NSString.alloc.initWithDataEncoding(
                    $.NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard
                    .dataForType(utiOrBundleID),
                    $.NSUTF8StringEncoding
                )
            );

        return 0 < clip.length ? (
            Right(clip)
        ) : Left(
            "No clipboard content found " + (
                `for type '${utiOrBundleID}'`
            )
        );
    };

    // setClipOfTextType :: String -> String -> IO String
    const setClipOfTextType = utiOrBundleID =>
        txt => {
            const pb = $.NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard;

            return (
                pb.clearContents,
                pb.setStringForType(
                    $(txt),
                    utiOrBundleID
                ),
                txt
            );
        };

    return main();
})();

(after which you could also use Mail’s Format > Lists > Convert to Numbered List on any selected runs)

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