Re: sending messages from script/command line

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> 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.

Anyone else who might need it, feel free to use it :)

> 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 :)

Maybe I can make a wrapper function that checks the buffer list for a
buffer named "*Gnus*" and starts gnus when there's no such buffer ...


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