From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emails written in Org Mode
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 02:33:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r41uvz0l.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r41uwdiy.fsf@andrew.cmu.edu
John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> Can't you just change your buffer mode to org-mode, compose, change back
> to message-mode and send? Did you want to do more than that?
Ok, message-mode is a text mode just like Org-mode and not a programming
mode, so it is not the perfect use-case for outshine/outorg, and it
would be possible to just change major-modes.
But why not resuse outorg for this if it already exists and works with
many other major-modes? The cost for typing M-# # is low (just as typing
C-c '), and it feels much smoother to switch to a temporary edit-buffer
than to change major-modes, and if only for the fact that you normally
don't have an Org-mode headline in a message-mode buffer, and Org
without a headline is like a cake without sugar, so you have to add one
manually to make things work and get the fontification.
Outorg does offer some export related conveniences too:
,----[ C-h f outorg-edit-as-org RET ]
| outorg-edit-as-org is an interactive Lisp function in `outorg.el'.
|
| It is bound to M-# #, <menu-bar> <Outshine> <Edit As Org>.
|
| (outorg-edit-as-org &optional ARG)
|
| Convert and copy to temporary Org buffer
|
| With ARG, act conditional on the raw value of ARG:
|
| | prefix | raw | action 1 | action 2 |
| |--------+-----+-------------------+--------------------------------|
| | C-u | (4) | edit-whole-buffer | --- |
| | C-1 | 1 | edit-whole-buffer | insert default export-template |
| | C-2 | 2 | edit-whole-buffer | prompt user for template-file |
| | C-3 | 3 | edit-whole-buffer | insert & keep default template |
| | C-4 | 4 | edit-whole-buffer | insert & keep template-file |
| | C-5 | 5 | propagate changes | --- |
|
| [back]
`----
i.e. you can temporarily (or persistently) add a default (or custom)
header to the message if you want to export it from Org-mode just by
giving a prefix arg. And, after inserting more headlines, you can decide
if you want to edit only the subtree at point (default) or the whole
buffer (with prefix arg).
> I played around with using a heading with properties to send an
> email. Basically the heading is the subject, you set some properties
> about TO, CC, etc... and the heading content is the body. You just put
> your cursor in the heading and run M-x email-heading. You can see the
> code here https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/blob/master/email.el#L31
>
> and
>
> https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/blob/master/email.el#L35
>
> It saves some details in properties, like when it was sent, etc... It is
> occasionally useful to me.
Using outshine/outorg with message-mode is just a nice side-effect,
their main purpose is of course bringing the look&feel of Org-mode to
programming modes. But they are easy to adapt to message-mode and very
smooth to use - so why not take advantage of this?
> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Thorsten, On a recent thread you wrote:
>>
>>> ... *outorg-edit-buffer* (where I write my message-mode email in
>>> full
>>> org-mode).
>>
>> I already write emails in emacs. I'm interested in being able to compose
>> emails using Org Mode. I see you use gnus. I use mu4e[1]. I wonder if
>> your setup is gnus-specific or might work with other emacs mail
>> clients. Will you provide some information about this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -k.
>>
>> [1] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html
>>
>>
--
cheers,
Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-10 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-08 18:28 emails written in Org Mode Ken Mankoff
2014-07-09 5:06 ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
[not found] ` <CAAjq1me3p_QPNf_UyXsbO2A4B7t_vVAAi-nL-k5wNsq0AU2J7w@mail.gmail.com>
2014-07-11 6:48 ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2014-07-09 7:49 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-07-10 12:57 ` Alan Schmitt
2014-07-10 13:27 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-07-11 9:32 ` Alan Schmitt
2014-07-09 19:14 ` John Kitchin
2014-07-09 20:03 ` Nick Dokos
2014-07-09 20:14 ` Ken Mankoff
2014-07-10 8:28 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-07-10 10:41 ` Ken Mankoff
2014-07-10 11:29 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-07-09 22:33 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-07-10 0:33 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2014-07-10 21:15 ` Esben Stien
2014-07-14 1:05 ` Esben Stien
2014-07-14 13:34 ` Esben Stien
2014-07-14 22:49 ` John Kitchin
2014-07-15 0:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-07-15 0:57 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-07-15 1:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-07-15 14:11 ` Alan Schmitt
2014-07-15 14:16 ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2014-07-16 3:03 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-07-16 17:02 ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2014-07-16 3:08 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-07-09 20:02 ` Noorul Islam K M
2014-07-10 0:44 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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