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Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?
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Adam Funk |
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Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode? |
Date: |
Fri, 5 May 2006 09:36:24 +0100 |
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slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) |
On 2006-05-04, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You don't need Perl for that, I guess. It's fairly easy to write a
> function in Elisp that does all you need and call it at Emacs startup,
ITYM "easy for someone who knows how to write Elisp"!
> i.e. a _very_ simplistic one could be:
>
>| (defun slrn-setup-post (&optional filename)
>| "Load a file and set things up for posting it as a `mail'
>| message through Emacs."
>| (interactive)
>| (if filename
>| (insert-filename))
>| (beginning-of-buffer)
>| (insert-string "From: foo@bar.example.net\n\n")
>| (mail-mode))
>
> Then you can set up slrn to use as its `$EDITOR' your Emacs wrapper
> script, which would run:
>
> emacs filename -f slrn-setup-post
>
> No need for Perl if you have the full Elisp languaeg at your hands :)
But you've given me a lot to start with. Thanks!
- Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?, (continued)
- Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?, Ralf Fassel, 2006/05/03
- Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?, Giorgos Keramidas, 2006/05/04
- Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?, Ralf Fassel, 2006/05/04
- Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?, Adam Funk, 2006/05/04
- Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?, Giorgos Keramidas, 2006/05/04
- Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?,
Adam Funk <=
- Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?, Giorgos Keramidas, 2006/05/05
- Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?, Reiner Steib, 2006/05/05
- Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?, Adam Funk, 2006/05/05
- Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?, Ralf Fassel, 2006/05/05
- Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?, John Sullivan, 2006/05/06
Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?, Adam Funk, 2006/05/09