From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Baloff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: changing the scratch mode Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:23:55 -0700 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: <42e53993_1@news.iprimus.com.au> References: <42e29019$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au> <87oe8swz9u.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122319144 31387 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2005 19:19:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:19:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 25 21:19:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8So-0002mw-9i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:18:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8V3-0007kt-3a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:20:29 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87oe8swz9u.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.50.67.39 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1122318742 un-2park-reader-02.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 31987 203.134.67.67:3502 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!38.119.100.83.MISMATCH!news-out.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling.newsfeeds.com!in.nntp.be!quokka.wn.com.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.58.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132656 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28179 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28179 Tim X wrote: > Baloff writes: > > >>Hello >> >>C-x b to get the scratch buffer, so I can type an email, ops the mode >>line shows (Lisp Interaction), well I need the mode assosiated with >>.txt files, I remember when I open a file with .txt it had a (Text Fly >>Fill) mode. now how can I change this mode in the middle of my >>"writing the email". >> >>thanks > > > I suspect there may be better ways of doing what you want, but its not > clear exactly what you want. For example, if you just want to write an > e-mail, why not use one of the many existing modes/packages for > composing e-mail. by doing this, you often get a lot of other added > benefits which may not get added when just creating a text file - for > example, you can define a bunch of e-mail specific abbrevs which only > take effect in buffers relating to composing e-mail, or you might > prefer different fill columns for normal text files compared to e-mail > messages or you might have a little emacs funciton which inserts witty > signatures into your e-mails which won't work if its just a buffer in > plain text mode etc. > > I just get the feeling from your post that you may be trying to force > emacs into your way of thinking/doing things. While this is certainly > one of the major advantages of emacs, you can pretty much customize it > to be just how you want, its better to work out how emacs does things > first so that your not just re-inventing part of an existing > wheel. Once you know how emacs wants to do things, you can then more > easily work out how to best customize it to meet your personal > preferences. > > Tim > right, gnus is one thing I did not know about, I am getting to know it now, is there another package about emails in my system that I maynot be aware off?