From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sending a buffer by mail
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:52:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871snsd0e1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85C51987-1B1D-494B-A2A1-700190E68A73@gmail.com
Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Aug 31, 2017, at 8:16, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>
>> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> c-x m creates an empty mail buffer, but say I have a buffer that I need to send by mail, what magic command would do the trick?
>>
>> M-x insert-buffer?
>
> No. I'm thinking more of something like "send-buffer-as-mail" so that I can do all my editing in the buffer and the command puts all that into a mail and I'm done.
Well, that sounds like a very thin wrapper around insert-buffer:
(defun send-buffer-as-mail ()
(interactive)
(let ((str (buffer-string)))
(compose-mail)
(message-goto-body)
(insert str)))
That's pretty much exactly what you'd get if you ran "C-x m", "M-x
insert-buffer", [choose buffer], "<RET>".
Alternately, there are a few functions that do this from Org mode, so
you can have nice structured text editing, and then email it.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-31 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-30 23:00 sending a buffer by mail Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-08-30 23:16 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-31 0:46 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-08-31 0:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2017-08-31 1:11 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-31 1:55 ` John Mastro
2017-08-31 2:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-08-31 4:43 ` Teemu Likonen
2017-09-21 13:05 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-08-31 4:54 ` Bob Newell
2017-08-31 0:38 ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-07 21:24 ` Emanuel Berg
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