From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: [CONTRIB?] using orgmode to send html mail? Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 08:49:22 +0200 Message-ID: <71591C25-1B0B-4162-A53C-16DB9436C0F3@gmail.com> References: <878w9krtyn.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> <871vfa24qo.fsf@gmail.com> <87pr2uww2d.fsf@columbia.edu> <87tys5zrwm.fsf@gmail.com> <87sk7pzk02.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87tys5r3q6.fsf@gmail.com> <87ocid7cuj.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> <874ok5qxp9.fsf@gmail.com> <87vdckksnj.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> <874ok33zje.fsf@gmail.com> <87zl1vf4ru.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de> <874ok311t9.fsf@gmail.com> <87y6h85pid.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <87fx3g1cld.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87eij05had.fsf@gmail.com> <878w98w4sz.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87sk7f8d6x.fsf@gmail.com> <87aatizcef.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nyg7m-0002hC-Nv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:49:30 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56933 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nyg7j-0002gE-4n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:49:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nyg7g-00054C-ME for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:49:27 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f214.google.com ([209.85.219.214]:59328) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nyg7g-000547-Go for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:49:24 -0400 Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so26199ewy.32 for ; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:49:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87aatizcef.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric Schulte Cc: Dan Davison , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Apr 5, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Eric Schulte wrote: > Hi, > > It is now possible to send HTML mail directly form an org-mode buffer. > > Calling `org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize' (could probably use a better > name) > from inside of an org-mode buffer will use `org-export-as-html' to > generate HTML of the buffer (respecting regions and subtree > narrowing), > and will then package the resulting HTML with all linked images into a > message buffer. > > As usual thanks to Carsten's thoughtfully organized functions and > control variables this was surprisingly easy to implement. > > Cheers -- Eric > > The code is still up at http://github.com/eschulte/org-mime CONTIRB? yes, after the release..... - Carsten > > "Eric Schulte" writes: > >> Dan Davison writes: >> >> [...] >> >>> >>> As I understand it the code you've written is designed to be >>> called in a >>> message-mode buffer with orgstruct-mode in force. Would it make >>> sense to >>> also include in your package a complementary function, that one >>> calls in >>> an org-mode buffer? I envisage this generating the HTML, forming the >>> multipart email contents, and then saving it to the kill ring, so >>> that >>> it can be pasted into an email. >>> >>> This function would have access to the directory-name and so >>> should be >>> able to resolve relative paths. Also, there might be some other >>> advantages -- for example when exporting just a region or subtree, >>> buffer-wide properties such as #+TITLE and #+AUTHOR are picked up >>> by the >>> org exporter and packaged into the HTML. >>> >>> In other words, can I use your machinery to package up the HTML >>> generated by Org's C-e dispatcher into an appropriately-constructed >>> email? >>> >> >> Hi Dan, >> >> That sounds like a good idea, I've added it to a fledgling task list >> packaged in the README at [1]. I'd say there are two options. >> >> 1) which you mentioned saving the entire exported content to the >> kill-ring. One problem here is that everything is still text and >> pastable only *before* the mime export process, which means that >> linked images wouldn't resolve after pasting into the email client. >> >> 2) having the function generate a new mail buffer containing the >> exported content. This buffer would need to have it's >> `buffer-file-name' set, for images to resolve during export. I'm >> not >> sure how this should best work. >> >> Thanks -- Eric >> >> Footnotes: >> [1] http://github.com/eschulte/org-mime > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode - Carsten