Re: Reading the article/message in elisp

[Husain Alshehhi <husain@alshehhi.io>]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> You can use `message-fetch-field' to get headers, as in:
>
> (defun message-yank-subject ()
>   (interactive)
>   (save-excursion
>     (let ((subj (message-fetch-field "Subject")))
>       (when subj
>         (message-goto-body)
>         (insert (format "%s\n" subj)) ))))
>
> More examples:
>   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/gnus/message-header.el

Thank you. message-fetch-field works if the point is in a message
buffer. I was not aware of this option. But when the point is in a
gnus-summary buffer, then

        (message-fetch-field "Subject")

returns nil. Even with something like:

        (defun husain--test-message-subject-yank ()
          (interactive)
          (save-excursion
            (let ((subj (message-fetch-field "Subject")))
              (if subj
                  (message subj)
                (gnus-summary-show-article)
                (gnus-summary-select-article-buffer)
                (message (message-fetch-field "Subject"))))))

this still doesn't work as intended because it does not restore the
window if the point is in a gnus-summary buffer pointing to an article
not open.

Is there a gnus function that can build the message in a temp buffer?