Re: Article mode for raw email message?

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 02:10:36PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to open a raw email message file in Article mode, hoping that
> it will look like it does in gnus ... headers hidden, text highlighting,
> clickable links, etc.
> 
> Unfortunately, though, it's not working. When I open the file and then
> explicitly select article mode, I still just see the raw text of the
> file.
> 
> I did run gnus and then exit, so gnus-article-mode was defined.
> 
> Is there a way to do this?

To follow up a bit, it turns out the perl script I'm using to "pipe" mail messages (courtesy of Mark Aufflick <http://mark.aufflick.com/o/886457>) to emacsclient does this:

        system(qq{$emacsclient -n --eval '(with-current-buffer "$buffer_name" (goto-char (point-max)) (insert "} . $acc . qq{"))'})

It's essentially passing in the entire buffer contents as a string. So it seems to me it should be possible to define a function to process that string as the contents of a mail
message and open it in Article mode. Then I guess --eval could invoke that function with the buffer name and content string as arguments. (As I said, I'm not a lisp maven, so
forgive me if I'm stating the obvious.)

Now I just have to figure out how to write that function.

Thanks,
-pd


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