From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm>
To: drain <aeuster@gmail.com>
Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: moving text from one buffer to another
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:56:34 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wqvayfu5.fsf@w2139spb.ru.yotateam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358498399542-275785.post@n5.nabble.com> (drain's message of "Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:39:59 -0800 (PST)")
On 18/01/2013 12:39 +0400, drain wrote:
> I'd like to know how I could structure this function more elegantly. It
> was designed to:
>
> (1) insert the e-mail address and topic of a mail recipient.
> (2) insert the body of a message written in my org-mode mail archive.
>
[snip]
>
> I'm comfortable with most of the code, but the way I copy text from the org
> archive seems somewhat messy. After a bunch of Google searches,
> "current-kill" was the first function that helped me reach my functionality
> goals. But it was hardly a learned choice.
>
I'd use a kind of address book instead of completing-read. See `(info
"(gnus) FAQ 5-7")' (for Gnus). Then the function would need only to copy
message content to a new mail buffer. I'm not familiar with org, so I
cannot help you on writing such a function, sorry.
--
Filipp Gunbin
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-18 8:39 moving text from one buffer to another drain
2013-01-18 9:56 ` Filipp Gunbin [this message]
2013-01-18 12:25 ` drain
2013-01-18 13:11 ` Filipp Gunbin
2013-01-18 13:25 ` drain
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