Hi Seb and Eric, Thanks for the advice - the info and sample .gnus file were great! Chris 2011/3/25 Sébastien Vauban > Chris Malone, > > Chris Malone wrote: > > Hi Henri-Paul, > > > > While you've brought the topic up I /have/ been recently curious about > > others' email setup and how they incorporate that into Emacs/org-mode? I > > notice several users send emails from within Emacs using org-mode syntax > - > > any tips on setting such a thing up? > > For the list and table stuff, here's an example from my .gnus file: > > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > ;; operates on messages you send > (defun my/message-mode-hook () > > ;; tab completion for alias in `.mailrc' > (local-set-key (kbd "M-TAB") 'mail-abbrev-complete-alias) > > ;; enable automatic word-wrap when composing messages > (setq fill-column 78) > (turn-on-auto-fill) > > (when (try-require 'org-footnote) > ;; default style used for footnoting is local to the Message being > ;; written > (set (make-local-variable 'org-footnote-auto-label) 'plain)) > > (when (locate-library "org.el") > > ;; turn on the `org-mode' table editor > (turn-on-orgtbl) > > ;; turn on orgstruct-mode > (turn-on-orgstruct) > > ;; turn on the enhanced version of orgstruct-mode > (turn-on-orgstruct++))) > > (add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'my/message-mode-hook) > #+end_src > > For "Org-mode syntax" (putting codes as the above): > > - simply copy/paste, > - select region with C-x C-x, > - demarcate block with C-c C-v C-d and insert the correct language (here: > emacs-lisp). > > > Also, how do you handle outside email accounts, for example, from gmail? > > What do you mean? Accessing them? That can be done from Emacs, although I > did not set this up (yet). > > Does the above meet your question? > > Best regards, > Seb > > -- > Sébastien Vauban > > >