From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: start emacs in mail mode?
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:23:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dtfeqd$v0v$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3041575.post@talk.nabble.com>
wdn wrote:
> 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"
>
> It does not do it. It opens the file tempmail in one buffer and starts
> mail-mode in a separate background buffer. So I still have to do "M-x
> mail-mode" and then respond to a prompt whether I really want to send the
> current buffer when I try to send the email.
Action arguments and options are processed in order, so:
emacs tempmail -f mail-mode
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-21 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-21 0:02 start emacs in mail mode? wdn
2006-02-21 12:27 ` Reiner Steib
2006-02-21 16:23 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
[not found] <mailman.1015.1140504979.2856.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-02-21 7:32 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-02-21 10:57 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-02-21 15:59 ` wdn
[not found] <mailman.1011.1140499884.2856.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-02-21 16:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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