From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: start emacs in mail mode? Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:21:49 -0500 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87ek1w4r96.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140566311 3672 80.91.229.2 (21 Feb 2006 23:58:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:58:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 22 00:58:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBhOa-0000uY-4G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:58:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBhOY-0007Q3-AE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:58:14 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ttKGTyTQWD8Zaw45FpyOqVekUoM= Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.48.80.201 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1140538908 70.48.80.201 (Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:21:48 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:21:48 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137714 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33338 Archived-At: > I would like to open emacs in mail-mode on a preformated mail message, ready > to edit as necessary and then send. (This is from a perl script that > gathers the necessary data for the email and composes a draft of the email > to potential authors of a journal I edit.) > My only idea was to try "emacs -f mail-mode tempmail" Try "emacs tempmail -f mail-mode" -- Stefan