getting the user name

[dunbarx]

I have always wondered about the (large) portion of the dictionary that is not in the, er, dictionary. The "messageMessages" comes to mind.

But simply finding the "username" is not straightforward, at least I believe. ChatGPT turned me on to "$USER" which gives the login name for my machine. Anyone know of a better way? It seems rather useful a tool, so one can tailor a stack to specific users, like I just needed to do.

Craig

[SparkOut]

In the Script Editor, you can toggle the visibility of Global (or System?) variables. Then in the variables list you'll see a lot of entries beginning with $ that provide lots of information about the user environment. They're mostly easy enough to work out what each provides, but I think they're in the dictionary.