Re: Auto enable text-mode when editing email (from mutt)

[Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>]

On 2009-02-19 12:45 (-0800), TheLonelyStar wrote:

> I use emacs to edit my emails (from mutt). It is started with this
> line: /usr/bin/emacs -nw -q
>
> Now, editing emails in text-mode instead of fundamental mode would be
> much cooler! How can I make emacs got to text-mode when invoked from
> mutt?

Maybe you want to use mail-mode instead? This should work:

    (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
                 '("\\`/tmp/mutt-[^/]+\\'" . mail-mode))

My suggestion for mail-mode settings:

    (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook
              '(lambda ()
                 (auto-fill-mode 1)
                 (set (make-local-variable 'tab-stop-list)
                      (number-sequence 4 100 4))
                 (setq indent-tabs-mode nil
                       fill-column 72)
                 (when (>= emacs-major-version 23)
                   (visual-line-mode 1))))