Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?

[Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>]

On Fri, 5 May 2006 09:36:24 +0100, Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2006-05-04, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>>> That external program I want to be a Perl script that puts some stuff
>>> at the beginning of the article, prefaces it with my custom headers,
>>> and then opens it in Emacs in mail-mode (so I can use my ~/.mailrc
>>> aliases and all the other great stuff that Emacs does).  Maybe I need
>>> to store the article in a /tmp file then load it into the Perl
>>> program, instead of piping it into the program's STDIN.
>>
>> You don't need Perl for that, I guess.  It's fairly easy to write a
>> function in Elisp that does all you need and call it at Emacs startup,
>
> ITYM "easy for someone who knows how to write Elisp"!

On Fri, 5 May 2006 14:54:06 +0100, Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This would require the input to be stored in a /tmp file (not being
> piped in), right?

Yes, this would make sense, I guess.  It will probably be a lot easier
to write an Elisp function if you don't have to worry about how to slurp
in the file, I think.

>> No need for Perl if you have the full Elisp languaeg at your hands :)
>
> There's not much elisp in my brain, however!

Same here, but I'm always learning more :)