From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Schulte" Subject: Re: [CONTRIB?] using orgmode to send html mail? Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:22:46 -0600 Message-ID: <87sk7f8d6x.fsf@gmail.com> References: <878w9krtyn.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> <871vfa24qo.fsf@gmail.com> <87pr2uww2d.fsf@columbia.edu> <87tys5zrwm.fsf@gmail.com> <87sk7pzk02.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87tys5r3q6.fsf@gmail.com> <87ocid7cuj.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> <874ok5qxp9.fsf@gmail.com> <87vdckksnj.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> <874ok33zje.fsf@gmail.com> <87zl1vf4ru.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> <874ok311t9.fsf@gmail.com> <87y6h85pid.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <87fx3g1cld.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87eij05had.fsf@gmail.com> <878w98w4sz.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NxLIN-0000DU-Op for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:22:55 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47735 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxLIL-0000Ck-97 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:22:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxLIJ-0005EA-9Z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:22:52 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f176.google.com ([209.85.222.176]:47006) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxLIJ-0005E4-27 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:22:51 -0400 Received: by pzk6 with SMTP id 6so510284pzk.1 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:22:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <878w98w4sz.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Dan Davison's message of "Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:37:48 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Dan Davison Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Dan Davison writes: [...] > > As I understand it the code you've written is designed to be called in a > message-mode buffer with orgstruct-mode in force. Would it make sense to > also include in your package a complementary function, that one calls in > an org-mode buffer? I envisage this generating the HTML, forming the > multipart email contents, and then saving it to the kill ring, so that > it can be pasted into an email. > > This function would have access to the directory-name and so should be > able to resolve relative paths. Also, there might be some other > advantages -- for example when exporting just a region or subtree, > buffer-wide properties such as #+TITLE and #+AUTHOR are picked up by the > org exporter and packaged into the HTML. > > In other words, can I use your machinery to package up the HTML > generated by Org's C-e dispatcher into an appropriately-constructed > email? > Hi Dan, That sounds like a good idea, I've added it to a fledgling task list packaged in the README at [1]. I'd say there are two options. 1) which you mentioned saving the entire exported content to the kill-ring. One problem here is that everything is still text and pastable only *before* the mime export process, which means that linked images wouldn't resolve after pasting into the email client. 2) having the function generate a new mail buffer containing the exported content. This buffer would need to have it's `buffer-file-name' set, for images to resolve during export. I'm not sure how this should best work. Thanks -- Eric Footnotes: [1] http://github.com/eschulte/org-mime