Gnus: Selecting several attachments (in dired-mode) does not (seem to) work

Gnus: Selecting several attachments (in dired-mode) does not (seem to) work

[Marius Hofert]

Hi,

I have 
(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'turn-on-gnus-dired-mode)
in .gnus.el in order to use dired mode to select multiple attachments at once. I read that C-c C-m C-a allows this. But if I hit that key combination in a new message, I obtain (in the minibuffer):
C-c RET C-a is undefined

What else do I have to specify?

Cheers,

Marius

Re: Gnus: Selecting several attachments (in dired-mode) does not (seem to) work

[Tassilo Horn]

Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:

Hi Marius,

> I have 
> (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'turn-on-gnus-dired-mode)
> in .gnus.el in order to use dired mode to select multiple attachments at
> once. I read that C-c C-m C-a allows this. But if I hit that key combination in
> a new message, I obtain (in the minibuffer):
> C-c RET C-a is undefined

You have to do that inside a dired buffer, when point is on a line
corresponding to the file you want to attach to the currently open
message mode buffer (aka THE MAIL).

Bye,
Tassilo
-- 
(What the world needs (I think) is not
      (a Lisp (with fewer parentheses))
      but (an English (with more.)))
Brian Hayes, http://tinyurl.com/3y9l2kf

Re: Gnus: Selecting several attachments (in dired-mode) does not (seem to) work

[Marius Hofert]

On 2011-11-23, at 16:25 , Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
> Hi Marius,
> 
>> I have 
>> (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'turn-on-gnus-dired-mode)
>> in .gnus.el in order to use dired mode to select multiple attachments at
>> once. I read that C-c C-m C-a allows this. But if I hit that key combination in
>> a new message, I obtain (in the minibuffer):
>> C-c RET C-a is undefined
> 
> You have to do that inside a dired buffer, when point is on a line
> corresponding to the file you want to attach to the currently open
> message mode buffer (aka THE MAIL).

thanks a lot, that works. 

The attachements are inserted right after the signature. I cheated in some newlines by adding two blank lines to ~/.signature.

Cheers,

Marius


> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> -- 
> (What the world needs (I think) is not
>      (a Lisp (with fewer parentheses))
>      but (an English (with more.)))
> Brian Hayes, http://tinyurl.com/3y9l2kf
> 
> 

Re: Gnus: Selecting several attachments (in dired-mode) does not (seem to) work

[Tassilo Horn]

Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:

Hi Marius,

>> You have to do that inside a dired buffer, when point is on a line
>> corresponding to the file you want to attach to the currently open
>> message mode buffer (aka THE MAIL).
>
> thanks a lot, that works.
>
> The attachements are inserted right after the signature. I cheated in
> some newlines by adding two blank lines to ~/.signature.

No need to do that.  Most email apps around today won't display the
attachments where they are inserted in the mail anyway.  Well, except
for Gnus, of course.

Bye,
Tassilo
-- 
(What the world needs (I think) is not
      (a Lisp (with fewer parentheses))
      but (an English (with more.)))
Brian Hayes, http://tinyurl.com/3y9l2kf