Re: [ANN] org-mime -- using orgmode to send html mail?

[Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com>]

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This looks great.  However, I get an error on my test mail:

This is should be HTML mode.

~foo~
=bar=
_baz_

| Table | A |
| 1     | 2 |

On calling org-mime-htmlize

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  string-match(nil #("This is should be HTML mode." 0 28 (fontified t)))
  byte-code("\304\211\x18\x19\305\n\v\"\203A
  org-html-handle-time-stamps(#("This is should be HTML mode." 0 28
(fontified t)))
  byte-code("\b\203\x13
  org-export-as-html(nil nil nil string t)
  (let nil (org-export-as-html nil nil nil (quote string) t))
  eval((let nil (org-export-as-html nil nil nil (quote string) t)))
  (progn (insert org-mime-default-header) (insert body) (write-file
tmp-file) (eval (list ... org-local-vars ...)))
  (unwind-protect (progn (insert org-mime-default-header) (insert body)
(write-file tmp-file) (eval ...)) (and (buffer-name temp-buffer)
(kill-buffer temp-buffer)))
  (save-current-buffer (set-buffer temp-buffer) (unwind-protect (progn ...
... ... ...) (and ... ...)))
  (with-current-buffer temp-buffer (unwind-protect (progn ... ... ... ...)
(and ... ...)))
  (let ((temp-buffer ...)) (with-current-buffer temp-buffer (unwind-protect
... ...)))
  (with-temp-buffer (insert org-mime-default-header) (insert body)
(write-file tmp-file) (eval (list ... org-local-vars ...)))
  (save-excursion (with-temp-buffer (insert org-mime-default-header) (insert
body) (write-file tmp-file) (eval ...)))
  org-mime-org-export("html" #("\nThis is should be HTML
mode.\n\n~foo~\n=bar=\n_baz_\n\n| Table | A |\n| 1     | 2 | \n\n-- \n" 0 1
(fontified t) 1 42 (fontified t) 42 43 (fontified t) 43 44 (article-type
emphasis fontified t) 44 47 (fontified t) 47 48 (article-type emphasis
fontified t) 48 50 (fontified t) 50 63 (fontified t face (gnus-cite-1
message-cited-text)) 63 64 (fontified t) 64 78 (fontified t face
(gnus-cite-1 message-cited-text)) 78 79 (fontified t rear-nonsticky t) 79 80
(fontified t) 80 84 (fontified t)) "/tmp/mail2522NRw")
  (org-mime-replace-images (org-mime-org-export "html" raw-body tmp-file)
tmp-file)
  (let* ((region-p ...) (html-start ...) (html-end ...) (raw-body ...)
(tmp-file ...) (body ...) (org-export-skip-text-before-1st-heading nil)
(org-export-htmlize-output-type ...) (org-export-preserve-breaks
org-mime-preserve-breaks) (html-and-images ...) (html-images ...) (html
...)) (delete-region html-start html-end) (save-excursion (goto-char
html-start) (insert ... ...)))
  org-mime-htmlize(nil)


On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>wrote:

> Announcing the addition of org-mime to the contrib directory of Org-mode
>
> this allows sending HTML email using org-mode including...
>
>
>    - *tables*   colname onecolname two  11 24 39
>    - *inline images* including latex equations [image: $f(n) = n +
>    \frac{1}{n} \int_{0}^{n}{d_x f(x) + f(n - x)}$] and the results of
>    ditaa blocks, etc…
>
> [image: blue.png]
>
>    - *blockquotes*
>
>    HTML e-mail is the use of a subset of HTML (often ill-defined) to
>    provide formatting and semantic markup capabilities in e-mail that are not
>    available with plain text. – wikipedia
>
>     - fontified *code blocks* (shown below)
>    - and *HTML character* conversion, like ∀ character c s.t. ∃ h ∈ *HTML
>    characters* and c ≡ h, org-html-export of c results in h
>
>
>
> The original org-mode formatted plain text is included as a text/plain
> mime alternative to the generated html.
>
> Below find the org-mime export of the org-mime worg page which will be
> available at http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-mime.php.
>
> Best -- Eric
>
> General
>
> org-mime can be used to send HTML email using Org-mode HTML export.
>
> This approximates a WYSiWYG HTML mail editor from within Emacs, and can be
> useful for sending tables, notified source code, and inline images in email.
>
>   How to use it
>  Setup
>
> org-mime exposes two functions
>  `org-mime-htmlize' can be called from within a mail composition buffer to
> export either the entire buffer or just the active region to html, and embed
> the results into the buffer as a text/html mime section.
>
> org-mime-htmlize is an interactive Lisp function in `org-mime.el'.
>
> (org-mime-htmlize ARG)
>
> Export a portion of an email body composed using `mml-mode' to
> html using `org-mode'.  If called with an active region only
> export that region, otherwise export the entire body.
>
>  `org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize' can be called from within an Org-mode
> buffer to export either the whole buffer or the narrowed subtree or active
> region to HTML, and open a new email buffer including the resulting HTML
> content as an embedded mime section.
>
> org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize is an interactive Lisp function in
> `org-mime.el'.
>
> (org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize)
>
> Export the current org-mode buffer to HTML using
> `org-export-as-html' and package the results into an email
> handling with appropriate MIME encoding.
>
>  The following key bindings are suggested, which bind the C-c M-o key
> sequence to the appropriate org-mime function in both email and Org-mode
> buffers.
>
> (add-hook 'message-mode-hook
>           (lambda ()
>             (local-set-key "\C-c\M-o" 'org-mime-htmlize)))
> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook
>           (lambda ()
>             (local-set-key "\C-c\M-o" 'org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize)))
>
>   CSS style customization
>
> Email clients will often strip all global CSS from email messages. In the
> case of web-based email readers this is essential in order to protect the
> CSS of the containing web site. To ensure that your CSS styles are rendered
> correctly they must be included in the actual body of the elements to which
> they apply.
>
> The `org-mime-html-hook' allows for the insertion of these important CSS
> elements into the resulting HTML before mime encoding. The following are
> some possible uses of this hook.
>
>    - for those who use color themes with Dark backgrounds it is useful to
>    set a dark background for all exported code blocks and example regions. This
>    can be accomplished with the following
>
>    (add-hook 'org-mime-html-hook
>              (lambda ()
>                (org-mime-change-element-style
>                 "pre" (format "color: %s; background-color: %s; padding: 0.5em;"
>                               "#E6E1DC" "#232323"))))
>
>     - the following can be used to nicely offset block quotes in email
>    bodies
>
>    (add-hook 'org-mime-html-hook
>              (lambda ()
>                (org-mime-change-element-style
>                 "blockquote" "border-left: 2px solid gray; padding-left: 4px;")))
>
>
> For other customization options see the org-mime customization group.
>   Credits
>
> org-mime was developed by Eric Schulte with much-appreciated help and
> discussion from everyone on the "using orgmode to send html mail<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/23153>"
> thread especially David Maus.
>
> "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Apr 5, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> It is now possible to send HTML mail directly form an org-mode buffer.
> >>>
> >>> Calling `org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize' (could probably use a better
> >>> name)
> >>> from inside of an org-mode buffer will use `org-export-as-html' to
> >>> generate HTML of the buffer (respecting regions and subtree
> >>> narrowing),
> >>> and will then package the resulting HTML with all linked images into a
> >>> message buffer.
> >>>
> >>> As usual thanks to Carsten's thoughtfully organized functions and
> >>> control variables this was surprisingly easy to implement.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers -- Eric
> >>>
> >>> The code is still up at http://github.com/eschulte/org-mime
> >>
> >> CONTIRB?  yes, after the release.....
> >>
> >
> > Sounds great, I'm move this into contrib then. -- Eric
> >
> >>
> >> - Carsten
> >>
> >>>
> >>> "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> >>>>
> >>>> [...]
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As I understand it the code you've written is designed to be
> >>>>> called in a
> >>>>> message-mode buffer with orgstruct-mode in force. Would it make
> >>>>> sense to
> >>>>> also include in your package a complementary function, that one
> >>>>> calls in
> >>>>> an org-mode buffer? I envisage this generating the HTML, forming the
> >>>>> multipart email contents, and then saving it to the kill ring, so
> >>>>> that
> >>>>> it can be pasted into an email.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This function would have access to the directory-name and so
> >>>>> should be
> >>>>> able to resolve relative paths. Also, there might be some other
> >>>>> advantages -- for example when exporting just a region or subtree,
> >>>>> buffer-wide properties such as #+TITLE and #+AUTHOR are picked up
> >>>>> by the
> >>>>> org exporter and packaged into the HTML.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In other words, can I use your machinery to package up the HTML
> >>>>> generated by Org's C-e dispatcher into an appropriately-constructed
> >>>>> email?
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Dan,
> >>>>
> >>>> That sounds like a good idea, I've added it to a fledgling task list
> >>>> packaged in the README at [1].  I'd say there are two options.
> >>>>
> >>>> 1) which you mentioned saving the entire exported content to the
> >>>>   kill-ring.  One problem here is that everything is still text and
> >>>>   pastable only *before* the mime export process, which means that
> >>>>   linked images wouldn't resolve after pasting into the email client.
> >>>>
> >>>> 2) having the function generate a new mail buffer containing the
> >>>>   exported content.  This buffer would need to have it's
> >>>>   `buffer-file-name' set, for images to resolve during export.  I'm
> >>>> not
> >>>>   sure how this should best work.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks -- Eric
> >>>>
> >>>> Footnotes:
> >>>> [1]  http://github.com/eschulte/org-mime
> >>>
> >>>
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> >> - Carsten
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