* start emacs in mail mode?
@ 2006-02-21 0:02 wdn
2006-02-21 12:27 ` Reiner Steib
2006-02-21 16:23 ` Kevin Rodgers
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From: wdn @ 2006-02-21 0:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
I would like to open emacs in mail-mode on a preformated mail message, ready
to edit as necessary and then send. (This is from a perl script that
gathers the necessary data for the email and composes a draft of the email
to potential authors of a journal I edit.)
My only idea was to try "emacs -f mail-mode tempmail"
It does not do it. It opens the file tempmail in one buffer and starts
mail-mode in a separate background buffer. So I still have to do "M-x
mail-mode" and then respond to a prompt whether I really want to send the
current buffer when I try to send the email.
Any help appreciated.
--wdn
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* Re: start emacs in mail mode?
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@ 2006-02-21 7:32 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-02-21 10:57 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-02-21 15:59 ` wdn
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From: Katsumi Yamaoka @ 2006-02-21 7:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> In <mailman.1015.1140504979.2856.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wdn wrote:
> I would like to open emacs in mail-mode on a preformated mail message, ready
> to edit as necessary and then send. (This is from a perl script that
> gathers the necessary data for the email and composes a draft of the email
> to potential authors of a journal I edit.)
> My only idea was to try "emacs -f mail-mode tempmail"
> It does not do it. It opens the file tempmail in one buffer and starts
> mail-mode in a separate background buffer. So I still have to do "M-x
> mail-mode" and then respond to a prompt whether I really want to send the
> current buffer when I try to send the email.
> Any help appreciated.
emacs -f mail -eval '(goto-char (point-max))' --insert tempmail
If tempmail has headers and a separator,
emacs -f mail -eval '(erase-buffer)' --insert tempmail
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* Re: start emacs in mail mode?
2006-02-21 7:32 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
@ 2006-02-21 10:57 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-02-21 15:59 ` wdn
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From: Thien-Thi Nguyen @ 2006-02-21 10:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
> emacs -f mail -eval '(goto-char (point-max))' --insert tempmail
here is an equivalent invocation:
emacs -f mail -f mail-text --insert tempmail
thi
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* Re: start emacs in mail mode?
2006-02-21 0:02 start emacs in mail mode? wdn
@ 2006-02-21 12:27 ` Reiner Steib
2006-02-21 16:23 ` Kevin Rodgers
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From: Reiner Steib @ 2006-02-21 12:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Tue, Feb 21 2006, wdn wrote:
> My only idea was to try "emacs -f mail-mode tempmail"
"emacs tempmail -f mail-mode"?
Bye, Reiner.
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* Re: start emacs in mail mode?
2006-02-21 7:32 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-02-21 10:57 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
@ 2006-02-21 15:59 ` wdn
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From: wdn @ 2006-02-21 15:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
Perfect! Thank-you
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* Re: start emacs in mail mode?
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@ 2006-02-21 16:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2006-02-21 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
> I would like to open emacs in mail-mode on a preformated mail message, ready
> to edit as necessary and then send. (This is from a perl script that
> gathers the necessary data for the email and composes a draft of the email
> to potential authors of a journal I edit.)
> My only idea was to try "emacs -f mail-mode tempmail"
Try "emacs tempmail -f mail-mode"
-- Stefan
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* Re: start emacs in mail mode?
2006-02-21 0:02 start emacs in mail mode? wdn
2006-02-21 12:27 ` Reiner Steib
@ 2006-02-21 16:23 ` Kevin Rodgers
1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2006-02-21 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
wdn wrote:
> I would like to open emacs in mail-mode on a preformated mail message, ready
> to edit as necessary and then send. (This is from a perl script that
> gathers the necessary data for the email and composes a draft of the email
> to potential authors of a journal I edit.)
>
> My only idea was to try "emacs -f mail-mode tempmail"
>
> It does not do it. It opens the file tempmail in one buffer and starts
> mail-mode in a separate background buffer. So I still have to do "M-x
> mail-mode" and then respond to a prompt whether I really want to send the
> current buffer when I try to send the email.
Action arguments and options are processed in order, so:
emacs tempmail -f mail-mode
--
Kevin Rodgers
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