From: Oscar Carlsson <oscar.carlsson@gmail.com>
To: Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Sending org buffer as mail?
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:49:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739px25g4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D0A0859.2040809@gmail.com> (Rainer M. Krug's message of "Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:38:49 +0100")
Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:
> On 12/16/2010 11:41 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>> On 12/16/2010 11:38 AM, Oscar Carlsson wrote:
>>> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> On 12/16/2010 09:25 AM, Jeff Horn wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Oscar Carlsson
>>>>> <oscar.carlsson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> And then, I can send a org-file by attaching it to a mail in Emacs. Try
>>>>>> C-x m to start a new mail buffer, attach with C-c C-a and send with C-c
>>>>>> C-c.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds very interesting - I'll try it out.
>>>>
>>>> C-x m looks great - I am sure I am going to use it a lot. And gmail is
>>>> exactly what I want to use it for.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Does this attach the buffer or read it into the message? I thought the
>>>>> OP wanted to read-in a buffer.
>>>>
>>>> Yes - that was effectively what I am looking for: the possiblility to
>>>> write my email in org mode and send the buffer content as the email text.
>>>>
>>>> Dream: Specify subject, to, cc, bcc (probably even attachments) as
>>>> properties, press a key and the org file is send to the addresses.
>>>>
>>>> Rainer
>>>>
>>>>> There should be a built-in function for
>>>>> that, but I've never used it.
>>>>>
>>
>>> In my answer above, you'd have to include the file as an attachment, or
>>> insert the text into the mail (either with M-x insert-file or
>>> copy/paste), it would have been better if compose-mail would have
>>> inserted any marked text or such, but I don't know how to code such
>>> functionality :-(
>>
>> Thanks Oscar - I think I can live with it at the moment.
>>
>> But to insert the marked text in the email body sounds a lot like emacs...
>
> OK - I asked on the emacs help list, and got a response. I added the
> followig to my emacs.org:
>
> * Add message hook to include selected text as body
> Thanks to Deniz Dogan
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (add-hook 'message-mode-hook
> (lambda ()
> (let (text)
> (with-current-buffer (other-buffer)
> (when (region-active-p)
> (setq text
> (buffer-substring (region-beginning)
> (region-end)))))
> (when text
> (end-of-buffer)
> (insert text)))))
> #+end_src
>
> This is doing exactly as expected.
Oh, I think that can be very handy in the long run. Thanks for sharing
the snippet!
Oscar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-16 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-16 8:04 Sending org buffer as mail? Rainer M Krug
2010-12-16 8:17 ` Oscar Carlsson
2010-12-16 8:25 ` Jeff Horn
2010-12-16 8:54 ` Rainer M Krug
2010-12-16 10:38 ` Oscar Carlsson
2010-12-16 10:41 ` Rainer M Krug
2010-12-16 12:38 ` Rainer M Krug
2010-12-16 13:49 ` Oscar Carlsson [this message]
2010-12-16 21:27 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-12-16 21:34 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-12-17 1:06 ` Matt Lundin
2010-12-17 1:27 ` Eric Schulte
2010-12-17 6:48 ` Eric Schulte
2010-12-17 8:57 ` Rainer M Krug
2010-12-17 10:02 ` Eric Schulte
2010-12-17 11:54 ` Matt Lundin
2010-12-17 21:25 ` Eric Schulte
2010-12-19 12:21 ` Niels Giesen
2010-12-19 20:47 ` Samuel Wales
2010-12-19 23:39 ` Eric Schulte
2010-12-21 20:55 ` Niels Giesen
2010-12-27 14:53 ` Eric Schulte
2010-12-27 18:11 ` Niels Giesen
2010-12-28 3:58 ` Eric Schulte
2010-12-27 17:53 ` Samuel Wales
2010-12-17 14:47 ` Jean-Marie Gaillourdet
2010-12-17 21:26 ` Eric Schulte
2010-12-18 23:26 ` Ethan Ligon
2010-12-20 1:46 ` Eric Schulte
2010-12-20 10:20 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-12-16 10:37 ` Oscar Carlsson
2010-12-16 13:22 ` Eric Schulte
2010-12-16 13:39 ` Rainer M Krug
2010-12-16 14:45 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-12-16 14:56 ` Eric Schulte
2010-12-16 16:19 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-12-16 18:20 ` Eric Schulte
2010-12-16 18:29 ` Jeff Horn
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