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Re: start emacs in mail mode?
From: |
Katsumi Yamaoka |
Subject: |
Re: start emacs in mail mode? |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:32:35 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> In <mailman.1015.1140504979.2856.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> 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.
> Any help appreciated.
emacs -f mail -eval '(goto-char (point-max))' --insert tempmail
If tempmail has headers and a separator,
emacs -f mail -eval '(erase-buffer)' --insert tempmail