Re: Article mode for raw email message?

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> Peter writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> [...]
>
>> Is there a way to do this?
>
> Not the same, but related: You can open a file in Gnus as a foreign
> group from the *Group* buffer:
>
> ,----
> | G f runs the command gnus-group-make-doc-group, which is an
> | interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-group.el'.
> | 
> | It is bound to G f, <menu-bar> <Groups> <Foreign groups> <Make a doc
> | group...>.
> | 
> | (gnus-group-make-doc-group FILE TYPE)
> | 
> | Create a group that uses a single file as the source.
> | 
> | If called with a prefix argument, ask for the file type.
> `----
>
> Maybe that'll work?

Thanks, Adam. Ultimately I'm hoping to trigger this from a script which
writes the message to a temp file and calls emacsclient to open it, but
maybe I can learn something from the code of this function.

Thanks!
-pd