Re: using templates to write articles (email)

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

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I use mozmail-compose-gnus in mozmail.el.  I wrap this with the attached
python script which reads an e-mail message from standard input and then
uses emacsclient to open a message buffer via mozmail-compose-gnus.

Dan


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#!/usr/bin/env python

# Reads an e-mail message from stdin, and sets up a gnus compose buffer
# with it ready to edit/send.  Only handles single-line To, Cc, Subject, etc.

import sys
import subprocess

readinghead = True
to = 'nil'
cc = 'nil'
bcc = 'nil'
subject = 'nil'
body = '"'
for line in sys.stdin:
    # Replace \ with \\
    line=line.replace('\\', r'\\')
    # Replace " with \"
    line=line.replace(r'"', r'\"')

    if readinghead:
	line = line.strip()
        if line:
            if line.startswith('To: '):
                to = '"' + line[4:] + '"'
            elif line.startswith('Cc: '):
                cc = '"' + line[4:] + '"'
            elif line.startswith('Bcc: '):
                bcc = '"' + line[5:] + '"'
            elif line.startswith('Subject: '):
                subject = '"' + line[9:] + '"'
            else:
                print 'Error: unknown line in head:'
                print line
                sys.exit(1)
        else:
            readinghead = False
    else:
        body += line
body += '"'

elisp = '(mozmail-compose-gnus %s %s %s %s %s)' % (to, subject, cc, bcc, body)
subprocess.call(['emacsclient', '-n', '--eval', elisp])