Re: Article mode for raw email message?

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) 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.
>>
>> Unfortunately, though, it's not working. When I open the file and then
>> explicitly select article mode, I still just see the raw text of the
>> file.
>>
>> I did run gnus and then exit, so gnus-article-mode was defined.
>>
>> Is there a way to do this?
>
> It's been years since I did the same thing so even if I still had my function around it would likely not be relevant anymore.  It wasn't as
> simple as running gnus-article-mode which is more about setting up key bindings and the like, but it wasn't too difficult.  You need to look
> at the source for gnus-summary-display-article as a starting point and figure out from there what functions to call within the article
> buffer to do the washing, header display, buttonizing etc that you want to have happen.

Thanks, David. I'm not a lisp maven, so I was hoping for something
simple and straightforward, but I'll see what I can figure out from the
code. 

Thanks!
-pd