start emacs in mail mode?

start emacs in mail mode?

[wdn]

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?

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> 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

Re: start emacs in mail mode?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

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

Re: start emacs in mail mode?

[Reiner Steib]

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?

[wdn]

Perfect!  Thank-you
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Re: start emacs in mail mode?

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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

Re: start emacs in mail mode?

[Kevin Rodgers]

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

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Kevin Rodgers