Re: sending messages from script/command line

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:40:25 +0200 lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: 

l> is there a way to send messages from a script using the posting style of
l> a particular group?  Like

l>   emacsclient -e "(gnus-group-mail 1)"

l> works fine, only it doesn't let me specify which group to use and emacs
l> asks me.
...
l> This might not be as it should be, but it seems to work:

l>   emacsclient -e '(my-gnus-group-mail "particular.group.name")'

l> Maybe there's a better (already built-in) way to do this?

There's no built-in way to do what you describe, so your function is
probably the best solution.

l> Since I am at this:  This only works when gnus has already been started.
l> What would I do to make sure that it's started if it isn't?  Is there a
l> way to check whether gnus is running from the command line/script, or
l> could/should I write a wrapper around 'my-gnus-group-mail that starts
l> gnus in case it's not started already?

Since Gnus is not a daemon, it's hard to do what you describe.  Gnus is
more like a set of functions that agree upon the same buffer formats :)

So the simplest way, probably, is to give some advice to the `gnus'
function and to the `q' keybinding in the Group buffer.  You can also
look at the `gnus-slave' stuff but that's opportunistic and not stateful.

Ted