Re: changing the scratch mode

[Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com>]

Baloff <vddr2u@bi.edu.gr> writes:

> Tim X wrote:
> > Baloff <vddr2u@bi.edu.gr> 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?

The only other 'standard' mail package that comes with emacs is
rmail. However, there are *lots* of various packages around and many
distributions come with some of the more standard ones. I'd recommend
checking out

http://www.emacswiki.org

Tim

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