From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Funk Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode? Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 20:46:32 +0100 Message-ID: References: <86vesme7tk.fsf@gothmog.pc> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146775231 10276 80.91.229.2 (4 May 2006 20:40:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 20:40:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 04 22:40:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fbkce-0006B5-8a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 22:40:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fbkcd-0003Wo-Gx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 16:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net wQ0PQQMEaIwc3opm4I61ugZj4n6KNHTsEYi6QNIHqLsTwMKBpZ X-Orig-Path: news.ducksburg.com!news User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139209 comp.lang.perl.misc:582290 comp.emacs:92104 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:34834 Archived-At: On 2006-05-04, Ralf Fassel wrote: > Well, via '-nw' you tell emacs to use the tty as input, but the tty is > already used by perl. Do you really need '-nw'? If you really need > -nw, you could try something along the lines of > > system("emacs -nw $tempfile -f mail-mode > I.e. use shell input redirection to the controlling tty. I have no > idea how robust that would be, and would rather get rid of the '-nw'. Maybe it would help if I explained what I'm *really* trying to do. I get usenet access by opening an xterm, logging into a server and running slrn. I really like like slrn except that I can't customize forwarding articles by e-mail the way I'd like, so I want to bind a slrn key to a command that just pipes the current article to an external program. 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.