Andrew Lawson <alawson@absentis.com> writes:

> Today I found myself sending various bits of tabular text via email
> (emacs in mutt) and found myself wondering whether it might be
> possible to use the org mode table support while composing messages.

Of course you can:

http://orgmode.org/manual/Orgtbl-mode.html#Orgtbl-mode

Reading the manual is a good idea. :-)

Charles

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