I'm not having much luck using post-mode. When I start an email from
mutt and load emacs, I get the error "File mode specification error:
(void- function post-mode)"
I have post.el in ~/.emacs-modes and (load "~/.emacs-modes/post") in my .emacs file.
Google searches found similar errors, but I didn't find anything that
relates to problems specific to post-mode.
I can provide other info on request. Any help is appreciated.
So. Yeah. I was going off of a configuration off the internet that I
didn't totally understand. I start emacs and did m-x post-mode, and it
loaded fine. So that's weird. Then I look in my .mutt/muttrc, and
there's the crazy 'set editor=' line that has way more than
necessary. The details aren't important there, but I changed it to
'set editor=emacs -nw' and voila! post-mode loads fine now.
On 2018-04-06 22:33, downtime wrote:
So. Yeah. I was going off of a configuration off the internet that I
didn't totally understand. I start emacs and did m-x post-mode, and it
loaded fine. So that's weird. Then I look in my .mutt/muttrc, and
there's the crazy 'set editor=' line that has way more than
necessary. The details aren't important there, but I changed it to
'set editor=emacs -nw' and voila! post-mode loads fine now.
BTW, I fail to see the advantage of this newfangled "post-mode" over message-mode which has been in emacs for decades.
BTW, I fail to see the advantage of this newfangled "post-mode" over message-mode which has been in emacs for decades.
I'm using mail-mode (for both mail and Usenet postings), for no
particular reason. Should I be using message-mode instead?
On 2018-04-09 13:55, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
BTW, I fail to see the advantage of this newfangled "post-mode" over
message-mode which has been in emacs for decades.
I'm using mail-mode (for both mail and Usenet postings), for no
particular reason. Should I be using message-mode instead?
I think it depends on your edit_headers setting. I have it on because I
like to always see the headers of the message I'm composing; and
message-mode has commands and key bindings to navigate the headers. If you're used to just seeing the body of the message, another mode may be better for you.
On Tue, 2018-04-10, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
On 2018-04-09 13:55, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
BTW, I fail to see the advantage of this newfangled "post-mode" over
message-mode which has been in emacs for decades.
I'm using mail-mode (for both mail and Usenet postings), for no
particular reason. Should I be using message-mode instead?
I think it depends on your edit_headers setting. I have it on because I
like to always see the headers of the message I'm composing; and
message-mode has commands and key bindings to navigate the headers. If
you're used to just seeing the body of the message, another mode may be
better for you.
I keep edit_headers set and mostly modify headers inside the editor.
But I like seeing mail headers as text and don't mind editing them
that way, without more help than the syntax highlighting provided by mail-mode.
Syntax highlighting and M-x fill-paragraph honoring '>'-quoted text
are the reasons I use mail-mode instead of plain text mode.
/Jorgen
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