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Subject: Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?
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On 2006-05-04, Paul Lalli <mritty@gmail.com> wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>
>>    my $status = system('emacs', '-nw', $temp_file, '-f mail-mode');
>>
>> Emacs produces this error:
>>
>>    standard input is not a tty
>
> I have no idea what that error message means as far as emacs is
> concerned, but your Perl system() command is wrong.  That command is
> calling the executable "emacs" with three arguments:  '-nw',
> $temp_file, and '-f mail-mode'.  That last one is the problem.  This is
> no different than if you had called emacs on the command line,
> surrounding '-f mail-mode' in quotes.  You need -f and mail-mode to be
> two separate arguments, not one argument:
>
> my $status = system('emacs', '-nw', $temp_file, '-f', 'mail-mode');

Yes, that was a stupid typing & editing mistake.  Thanks for pointing
it out.