Configuring .emacs to use some different values when launched by slrn?

Configuring .emacs to use some different values when launched by slrn?

[Adam Funk]

I've recently started using slrn with emacs (of course) as my post
editor.  The problem is that sometimes I want to gpg-sign the posts
(using Mailcrypt) but I use a different e-mail address for usenet
posts.  For example, my ~/.emacs file currently contains the line

	(setq mc-gpg-user-id "6F8D3D7D")

but I'd like a different user-id to be in effect when I'm editing
usenet messages.  Is it possible for emacs to know it has been
launched by slrn and change some parameters accordingly?  (And if so,
how?  I'm not an elisp expert.)

Or should I just set the environment variable SLRN_EDITOR to something
like 'emacs -l ~/.emacs.slrn.extras' and add the changes there?  Will
that command run ~/.emacs first and *then* the file specified with -l?

Thanks,
Adam

Re: Configuring .emacs to use some different values when launched by slrn?

[Ismael Valladolid Torres]

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Adam Funk escribe:
> I've recently started using slrn with emacs (of course) as my post
> editor.  The problem is that sometimes I want to gpg-sign the posts
> (using Mailcrypt) but I use a different e-mail address for usenet
> posts.  For example, my ~/.emacs file currently contains the line
> 
> 	(setq mc-gpg-user-id "6F8D3D7D")
> 
> but I'd like a different user-id to be in effect when I'm editing
> usenet messages.  Is it possible for emacs to know it has been
> launched by slrn and change some parameters accordingly?  (And if so,
> how?  I'm not an elisp expert.)

How about using a mode hook?

Cordially, Ismael
-- 
Dropping science like when Galileo dropped his orange

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Re: Configuring .emacs to use some different values when launched by slrn?

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-01-24, Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've recently started using slrn with emacs (of course) as my post
> editor.  The problem is that sometimes I want to gpg-sign the posts
> (using Mailcrypt) but I use a different e-mail address for usenet
> posts.  For example, my ~/.emacs file currently contains the line
>
> 	(setq mc-gpg-user-id "6F8D3D7D")
>
> but I'd like a different user-id to be in effect when I'm editing
> usenet messages.  Is it possible for emacs to know it has been
> launched by slrn and change some parameters accordingly?  (And if so,
> how?  I'm not an elisp expert.)
>
> Or should I just set the environment variable SLRN_EDITOR to something
> like 'emacs -l ~/.emacs.slrn.extras' and add the changes there?  Will
> that command run ~/.emacs first and *then* the file specified with -l?

OK, that approach seems to work.  I added one line
  export SLRN_EDITOR='/usr/bin/emacs -nw -l ~/.emacs.special.slrn'
to ~/.bashrc, and put one line
  (setq mc-gpg-user-id "1701F69C")
in ~/.emacs.special.slrn.  Now when slrn edits a post, the correct gpg
key is chosen.

However, I've now got a mailcrypt question.  When I select the body of
the message and try M-x mc-sign, the mc-sign-region command is not
available.  But if I sign the whole file (including, wrongly, the
headers) then undo it, when I hit M-x again, the mc-sign and
mc-sign-region commands are both available.  Why is this, and how can
I make mc-sign-region available from the start?

Re: Configuring .emacs to use some different values when launched by slrn?

[RaoulGough]

Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2006-01-24, Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
[snip]
> However, I've now got a mailcrypt question.  When I select the body of
> the message and try M-x mc-sign, the mc-sign-region command is not
> available.  But if I sign the whole file (including, wrongly, the
> headers) then undo it, when I hit M-x again, the mc-sign and
> mc-sign-region commands are both available.  Why is this, and how can
> I make mc-sign-region available from the start?

Sounds like one of the functions is autoloaded and the other one isn't.
You can probably fix it by adding a require call in your initialisation
file, e.g. (require 'mc). I don't know anything about mailcrypt, so
that might not be exactly right. Alternatively,  you could also use
(load-library "name_of_mailcrypt_library") to force the whole library
to load.

Mailcrypt [was: Re: Configuring .emacs to use some different values when launched by slrn?]

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-01-24, RaoulGough@yahoo.co.uk <RaoulGough@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>> On 2006-01-24, Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>> However, I've now got a mailcrypt question.  When I select the body of
>> the message and try M-x mc-sign, the mc-sign-region command is not
>> available.  But if I sign the whole file (including, wrongly, the
>> headers) then undo it, when I hit M-x again, the mc-sign and
>> mc-sign-region commands are both available.  Why is this, and how can
>> I make mc-sign-region available from the start?
>
> Sounds like one of the functions is autoloaded and the other one isn't.
> You can probably fix it by adding a require call in your initialisation
> file, e.g. (require 'mc). I don't know anything about mailcrypt, so
> that might not be exactly right. Alternatively,  you could also use
> (load-library "name_of_mailcrypt_library") to force the whole library
> to load.

Hmm.  I've already got the following in .emacs:

  (require 'mailcrypt-init)
  (load-library "mailcrypt")
  (mc-setversion "gpg")

Also, I can't find the mc-sign-region command documented in the
mailcrypt info docs.  Any mailcrypt experts here?

Re: Mailcrypt [was: Re: Configuring .emacs to use some different values when launched by slrn?]

[Adam Funk]

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On 2006-01-24, Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> Adam Funk wrote:
...
>>> However, I've now got a mailcrypt question.  When I select the body of
>>> the message and try M-x mc-sign, the mc-sign-region command is not
>>> available.  But if I sign the whole file (including, wrongly, the
>>> headers) then undo it, when I hit M-x again, the mc-sign and
>>> mc-sign-region commands are both available.  Why is this, and how can
>>> I make mc-sign-region available from the start?

By semi-random googling, I found a solution:

http://www.evenmere.org/~bts/Software/Dotfiles/%20.emacs

(autoload 'mc-sign-region "mc-toplev" nil t)

Hope this helps someone else.
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