From: Ryan Kavanagh <rak@rak.ac>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unexpected fill-paragraph behaviour in message-mode
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 07:54:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230214125434.vl2kzkmylwsgw7on@asteria.rak.ac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0utsib9.fsf@iki.fi> <834jrpfv5j.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 05:20:42PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> I use rarely Mutt but for those cases I have defined a derived major
> mode from message-mode. See the code below.
Thank you for this code snippet. It is very helpful and I will use some
variant of it.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 05:21:44PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> You could try that, but my response will be that message-mode is not
> meant for this job. It is a mode for composing email that is intended
> to be sent by Emacs MUA, not for editing arbitrary text.
Thanks for this clarification. Having used message-mode to compose
emails in the past, I mistakenly assumed it could be used to compose
emails for non-emacs MUAs.
Best wishes,
Ryan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-14 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-13 1:11 Unexpected fill-paragraph behaviour in message-mode Ryan Kavanagh
2023-02-13 13:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-13 14:41 ` Ryan Kavanagh
2023-02-13 15:20 ` Teemu Likonen
2023-02-13 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-14 12:54 ` Ryan Kavanagh [this message]
2023-02-14 13:24 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-15 2:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-02-15 17:06 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-02-13 19:07 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-15 17:02 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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