mutt FROM emacs

[Matt Price]

On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 16:51 -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> 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

unfortunately the link on that page is down.  but mutt-mode appears to
have been superseded by post-mode, which is at sourceforge now:
http://post-mode.sourceforge.net/

thanks!

matt


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