From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57823 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Add another "nndraft" type ? Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:16:27 +0200 Organization: GNU Rox ! Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86n03kha99.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086290582 32368 80.91.224.253 (3 Jun 2004 19:23:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6364@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jun 03 21:22:49 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BVxnc-0002qg-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:22:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BVxmu-0001jG-00; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:22:04 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BVxmq-0001jB-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:22:00 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BVxmo-0001Lq-Fo for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:21:58 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB853A003C for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:21:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BVxmn-0003ba-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:21:57 +0200 Original-Received: from rms.gnu-rox.org ([213.41.134.247]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:21:57 +0200 Original-Received: from zedek by rms.gnu-rox.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:21:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rms.gnu-rox.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Attribution: zeDek X-Face: "qG{UC8GPzro#PZ!Jgisuj0]=k10 f#d596CJMPGOGwB'j\^JR2g0']N%L:ylC`?.l8u#JuS#CygUA}avHHVJJ!#ub7CxX#u]g}?z,hQ;c q%v]"[$!BfS X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, en-en, en-fr User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:k3j7ygbo3JDMkJZKiLTM6f+88ro= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57823 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57823 On 3 Jun 2004, David S. Goldberg wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:33:22 +0200, Kai Grossjohann > > > > > > said: > > > Xavier Maillard writes: > > > What I currently miss is a way to keep a copy of such message that > > > would be the base for other messages. I call that template but I > > > am not sure of the terminology. > > > Perhaps you can "just" use abbrevs? I think that's a low-tech > > mechanism that's underused. > > This can be painful if you have a lot of them, especially if some are > similar and you mix up which you want. > > > Or keep each template in a file and use C-x i. > > For a while I had a couple of nndraft articles that held initial > contents of things like scheduled outage messages and the like. I > would B C them and then D E the copy. That got old the first time I > accidentally ran D E on the main copy, though :-) > > > Or use skeleton to generate them. > > Not sure what you mean by skeleton, but eventually I discovered > tempo.el which is how I handle these things now. Any good example ? :) -- Xavier MAILLARD (GnuPG: 1024D/1E028EA5) EmacsOS user (http://emacsfr.org) APRIL (http://www.april.org)