From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois_Pinard?= Subject: Re: gnus: link annoyance Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:02:09 -0500 Message-ID: <871u0jesy6.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> References: <87zjn9w79w.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> <874n5hca77.fsf@pank.eu> <87ha9g2w1p.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> <8738kzgbv4.fsf@crunchbang.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37768) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0YAa-0007wk-IW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:02:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0YAV-0005uH-Hx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:02:16 -0500 Received: from 206-248-137-202.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.137.202]:59670 helo=mercure.progiciels-bpi.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0YAV-0005uB-Cb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:02:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8738kzgbv4.fsf@crunchbang.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (Joseph Vidal-Rosset's message of "Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:28:15 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Joseph Vidal-Rosset writes: > Org uses Gnus, is it possible of making uses of Org via Gnus? [...] > Is it already possible to do that with Org and Gnus, or not? If it is > not possible at the moment, would it be possible? Gnus and Org are both open source and very capable systems, both in themselves and when it comes to extensibility. The main problem is acquiring enough familiarity with their internals to find out the correct, short, compact way of doing about anything one wants. :-) > I mean that it would be great to write a letter with for example the > letter class in a file letter.org . After that you can export your > letter.org to a letter.html as well as to letter.pdf via letter.tex, > and with Gnus, thanks to the link system, you can send your nice > letter.html to your colleague with letter.pdf as attachment. Many years ago, the message composition has been fairly decoupled from Gnus and brought back into Emacs for other mailers to use. So, I guess you are seeking some machinery between Org and Message, more than between Org and Gnus. I'm far from being sure, but if I wanted to use Org as a mean to write HTML or PDF as message attachments, I would think it could be done with a very moderate amount of Emacs Lisp customization. Unless mistaken, the Org editor to HTML might yield its output in a temporary Emacs buffer, (for PDF, maybe not) and I would be fairly surprised if message composition does not have facilities to receive attachments from buffers. And even if one would have to go through an external file, the extra overhead might be negligible in practice. Putting all the pieces together might require some work, but maybe not that much. Fran=C3=A7ois