From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57821 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David S Goldberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Add another "nndraft" type ? Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:15:47 -0400 Organization: I Yam What I Yam 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 1086283071 10311 80.91.224.253 (3 Jun 2004 17:17:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:17:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6362=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jun 03 19:17:38 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 1BVvqU-0007dZ-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:17:38 +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 1BVvqT-0001Nd-01 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:17:37 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BVvqK-0001NT-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:17:28 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BVvqI-00085Q-VB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:17:26 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp-mclean.mitre.org (smtp-mclean-x.mitre.org [192.80.55.71]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEC73A003C for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 12:17:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from smtp-mclean.mitre.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-mclean.mitre.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i53HLAV20830 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 13:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtp-mclean.mitre.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i53HKgI20300 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 13:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from blackbird.mitre.org (129.83.3.57) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 7750412; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:15:49 -0400 Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List X-Face: GUaHTH@nS>[7,ME@-gYZ4#Wl{z"99k@[[Y8AcP0x1paqu.,z9,XSV1WI>{q3f6^e5(zrit <4fV&VHhmE`uidRqtmG27;si9&r;#KSF~E#$%W8w(xdp)H4tW=\2XOk~3=@oGqqpj;m4xf Ow;y26396&,34@9#~4;@*S;E0cq"LM9N(us4P%F(Nxis'Vvfm9?KufH;:Q$dMa-QWGLR&K d0`LJZE8xb*>^yN>b]_NcU:E=Zn\1=#/(OS2 In-Reply-To: <86n03kha99.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> (Kai Grossjohann's message of "Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:33:22 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, cygwin32) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57821 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57821 >>>>> 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. -- Dave Goldberg david.goldberg6@verizon.net