From: Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:36:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8dfri3-5ng.ln1@news.ducksburg.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86slnpbjn0.fsf@gothmog.pc
On 2006-05-04, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>> That external program I want to be a Perl script that puts some stuff
>> at the beginning of the article, prefaces it with my custom headers,
>> and then opens it in Emacs in mail-mode (so I can use my ~/.mailrc
>> aliases and all the other great stuff that Emacs does). Maybe I need
>> to store the article in a /tmp file then load it into the Perl
>> program, instead of piping it into the program's STDIN.
>
> You don't need Perl for that, I guess. It's fairly easy to write a
> function in Elisp that does all you need and call it at Emacs startup,
ITYM "easy for someone who knows how to write Elisp"!
> i.e. a _very_ simplistic one could be:
>
>| (defun slrn-setup-post (&optional filename)
>| "Load a file and set things up for posting it as a `mail'
>| message through Emacs."
>| (interactive)
>| (if filename
>| (insert-filename))
>| (beginning-of-buffer)
>| (insert-string "From: foo@bar.example.net\n\n")
>| (mail-mode))
>
> Then you can set up slrn to use as its `$EDITOR' your Emacs wrapper
> script, which would run:
>
> emacs filename -f slrn-setup-post
>
> No need for Perl if you have the full Elisp languaeg at your hands :)
But you've given me a lot to start with. Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-05 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-03 11:29 How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode? Adam Funk
2006-05-03 14:26 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-05-03 15:05 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-03 18:16 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-05-03 19:05 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-03 20:35 ` Ralf Fassel
2006-05-04 4:24 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-05-04 10:49 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-04 13:16 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-05-04 16:43 ` Ralf Fassel
2006-05-04 19:46 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-04 20:49 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-05-05 8:36 ` Adam Funk [this message]
2006-05-05 14:26 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-05-05 11:17 ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-05 13:54 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-05 12:13 ` Ralf Fassel
2006-05-04 17:13 ` Paul Lalli
2006-05-04 19:27 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-05 21:39 ` John Sullivan
2006-05-09 11:00 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-09 11:48 ` Ralf Fassel
2006-05-09 12:15 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-09 14:16 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-09 14:30 ` Ralf Fassel
2006-05-10 8:23 ` Adam Funk
2006-05-10 12:11 ` Ralf Fassel
2006-05-10 12:22 ` Adam Funk
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