Re: using templates to write articles (email)

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

Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> writes:

> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>
>> is there some sort of support built into gnus for writing articles
>> (email) from templates? Such templates would contain either headers or
>> a body, or a combination of both.
>
> So I guess you could go down this road. You can add any variable to a
> topic/group parameter, for example a skeleton text. Then, what you can
> do is write a message-setup-hook function that looks in there and fill
> your message with the appropriate contents.
>
> All of this provided that group-based templating is what you have in
> mind of course.

Group-based templating should be fine. I would only need to specify the
filename of the template text in a variable and to write a function that
automatically replaces the default contents of the composing buffer with
the file and then allows me to edit it :)