From: Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 20:05:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dhbni3-bbt.ln1@news.ducksburg.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86psivug6u.fsf@gothmog.pc
On 2006-05-03, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2006 16:05:54 +0100, Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On 2006-05-03, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 3 May 2006 12:29:03 +0100, Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> I'd like the output of a Perl program to end up in an Emacs mail-mode
>>>> buffer, ready to proofread, edit and then send with C-c C-c. I don't
>>>> mind whether my program
>>>>
>>>> 1. pipes the output to an emacs command, or
>>>>
>>>> 2. saves the output in a temp file and opens it with an emacs command.
>>
>> I forgot to make something clear: emacs is *not* running when the Perl
>> program starts. The Perl program generates the unedited message and
>> then launches emacs.
>
> Oh! I misunderstood you then. Sorry.
To me it seemed perfectly obvious what I meant, if you know what I
mean. That's why I get other people to proofread bigger things!
> This is kind of backwards. I usually let Emacs start other programs as
> inferior processes, instead of the other way around. Perhaps someone
> more experienced with Emacs can help you with this (i.e. you could write
> a function that can be called with:
>
> perl script.pl | emacs --batch -f foo-function
>
> and let `foo-function' read from the standard input stream. But I know
> far too little to do that myself.
I'll look at from that angle and see if I can come up with something
(but my elisp is really bad).
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-03 19:05 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 [this message]
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
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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