mutt FROM emacs

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 04:24:04PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
>
>so i've finally set up my little laptop as a sort of emacs typewriter --
>i log in to an openbox session with emacs running full screen, in an
>effort to reduce distractions.  now sometimes i'll write something that
>i want to email out somewhere.  I keep my contacts in evolution, which i
>can query from mutt using this python script i found on the mutt wiki:
>http://wiki.mutt.org/?QueryCommand/EvolutionSearch .  one strategy is to
>start a terminal emulator, invoke mutt, use emacsclient as the editor,
>copy the contents of the relevant buffer into the message...  that's not
>really so bad, but i'd rather have a command i can invoke directly from
>an active buffer that does something like "put the contents of the
>current buffer into the body of a mail message addressed to an address i
>cna get out of my contacts files".  anyone do anytghing like this?  i
>guess i could also use one of the emacs mail modes ratherthan mutt --
>i'm releuctant to do that just cause i don't want to learn another MUA
>hwen i already feel like i have too many -- but if it's much easier i'd
>definitely be open to it.  

I do not speak emacs, as I am a vim user and do not have
time/inclination to retrain my brain/hands, but this came up on a Google
search for emacs mutt mode:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/MuttMode
-- 

yours,

William

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