create message, enter address & subject, skip rest of headers

create message, enter address & subject, skip rest of headers

[Gijs Hillenius]

In Gnus, C-x m creates a new email message, and places the cursor at the
To: header, ready to enter an email address.  C-n goes to the subject
line.

In my case C-u 8 C-n brings the cursor to the line below:

,----
| --text follows this line--
`----

I could create a keybinding. But the number of headers could change,
depending on posting styles and what else. Perhaps one of the wizards
here knows of a better way?

Re: create message, enter address & subject, skip rest of headers

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:

> In Gnus, C-x m creates a new email message, and places the cursor at the
> To: header, ready to enter an email address.  C-n goes to the subject
> line.
>
> In my case C-u 8 C-n brings the cursor to the line below:
>
> ,----
> | --text follows this line--
> `----
>
> I could create a keybinding. But the number of headers could change,
> depending on posting styles and what else. Perhaps one of the wizards
> here knows of a better way?

See the docstring for message-mode -- you can do a lot more than that!

E

Re: create message, enter address & subject, skip rest of headers

[Gijs Hillenius]

On 12 Feb 2016, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:


[...]

>> Perhaps one of the wizards here knows of a better way?
>
> See the docstring for message-mode -- you can do a lot more than that!

:-)

thanks! 

Re: create message, enter address & subject, skip rest of headers

[Emanuel Berg]

Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:

> In Gnus, C-x m creates a new email message, and places
> the cursor at the To: header, ready to enter an email
> address. C-n goes to the subject line.

And C-c C-b is `message-goto-body'.

> In my case C-u 8 C-n brings the cursor to the line
> below:

You can reduce the number of headers with, e.g.,

    (setq message-hidden-headers
      '("References" "Face" "X-Face" "X-Draft-From" "Mail-Copies-To" "From" "Gcc") )

> --text follows this line--

As a side note, you can change that with

    (setq mail-header-separator "---")

> I could create a keybinding. But the number of
> headers could change, depending on posting styles
> and what else. Perhaps one of the wizards here knows
> of a better way?

Specifically, `message-goto-body', as said.
In general, reduce the number of visible headers.
Also check out this package to iterate headers (and
the body) back and forth with TAB and backtab:

    http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/gnus/moggle.el

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