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

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

[TheLonelyStar]

Hi,

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?

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

[tyler]

TheLonelyStar <nabble2@lonely-star.org> writes:

> 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?
>

I haven't used mutt in a while, but I still have this in my .emacs:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("/mutt" . mail-mode))

I believe that that will put all buffers visiting mutt files into
mail-mode automatically. You could switch that to text-mode, but you
might find that mail-mode covers what you want already.

Cheers,

Tyler

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

[Teemu Likonen]

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))))

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

[Uwe Scholz]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:45:47 -0800, TheLonelyStar wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks!
> Nathan

Hello,

I prefer 'post-mode' for editing outgoing mail with emacs started from 
mutt. You can get it from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/post-mode/

To use it, you have to put the el-file in a folder you want, lets say 
".emacs.stuff" and insert the following lines to your .emacs file:

(setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.stuff" load-path))
(load "post")

This starts the post-mode every time, you start emacs. For running emacs 
using mutt I wrote an extra config-file with the postmode-entry and 
insert the line

set editor='emacs -nw -l ~/.emacs.mail'

in .muttrc.

Ciao, Uwe