From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Subject: Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 17:26:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86hd44wnsq.fsf@gothmog.pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8dfri3-5ng.ln1@news.ducksburg.com
On Fri, 5 May 2006 09:36:24 +0100, Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2006-05-04, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>>> That external program I want to be a Perl script that puts some stuff
>>> at the beginning of the article, prefaces it with my custom headers,
>>> and then opens it in Emacs in mail-mode (so I can use my ~/.mailrc
>>> aliases and all the other great stuff that Emacs does). Maybe I need
>>> to store the article in a /tmp file then load it into the Perl
>>> program, instead of piping it into the program's STDIN.
>>
>> You don't need Perl for that, I guess. It's fairly easy to write a
>> function in Elisp that does all you need and call it at Emacs startup,
>
> ITYM "easy for someone who knows how to write Elisp"!
On Fri, 5 May 2006 14:54:06 +0100, Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This would require the input to be stored in a /tmp file (not being
> piped in), right?
Yes, this would make sense, I guess. It will probably be a lot easier
to write an Elisp function if you don't have to worry about how to slurp
in the file, I think.
>> No need for Perl if you have the full Elisp languaeg at your hands :)
>
> There's not much elisp in my brain, however!
Same here, but I'm always learning more :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-05 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-03 11:29 How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode? Adam Funk
2006-05-03 14:26 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-05-03 15:05 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-03 18:16 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-05-03 19:05 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-03 20:35 ` Ralf Fassel
2006-05-04 4:24 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-05-04 10:49 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-04 13:16 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-05-04 16:43 ` Ralf Fassel
2006-05-04 19:46 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-04 20:49 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-05-05 8:36 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-05 14:26 ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2006-05-05 11:17 ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-05 13:54 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-05 12:13 ` Ralf Fassel
2006-05-04 17:13 ` Paul Lalli
2006-05-04 19:27 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-05 21:39 ` John Sullivan
2006-05-09 11:00 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-09 11:48 ` Ralf Fassel
2006-05-09 12:15 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-09 14:16 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-09 14:30 ` Ralf Fassel
2006-05-10 8:23 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-10 12:11 ` Ralf Fassel
2006-05-10 12:22 ` Adam Funk
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