From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Saptarshi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reply to a message in a buffer Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 17:08:35 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <97a1889d-822f-4c02-a00b-93e56db277c8@v5g2000prm.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233711649 28941 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2009 01:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:40:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 04 02:42:02 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LUWmA-000360-C2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:42:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43478 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUWkr-0006xp-LC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v5g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 98.223.110.158 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1233709716 17394 127.0.0.1 (4 Feb 2009 01:08:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:08:36 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v5g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=98.223.110.158; posting-account=X-QcEwoAAADUh3ahIw0DWrzMgadEc97H User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166580 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:61893 Archived-At: > > if i understand your question correctly, you basically just want a way > to create a new buffer. > > you can use switch-to-buffer (Ctrl+x b), then give a random name. > > if you are using my ergo map package, you can just call new-empty- > buffer (Ctrl+n). > > =A0http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html > I saw this message rather late. Actually, suppose I take your message as an example which i've pasted below. What I wanted is to copy this , paste it in a buffer and in message mode reply to this, so that I get all the features of message mode ( snippet handling, automatic > prefix etc) However, if i turn on message mode, its treats the buffer content *my* response. Thank you Saptarshi "> Hello, > I don't use GNUS but I do use GMail. I sometimes copy the message from > a gmail (by selecting the original source sans headers from GMail) > paste it in an emacs buffer and turn on message-mode. However, this > treats the buffer as the message, whereas I would like to reply to the > message in the buffer. > Is there a message-mode function that will reply(create a new buffer) > to a buffer that contains an email message? > Thanks and regards > Saptarshi if i understand your question correctly, you basically just want a way to create a new buffer. you can use switch-to-buffer (Ctrl+x b), then give a random name. if you are using my ergo map package, you can just call new-empty- buffer (Ctrl+n). http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html ---------------- it would be nice if there's a emacs package that interface with GMail. "