Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Apr 5, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It is now possible to send HTML mail directly form an org-mode buffer.
>>
>> Calling `org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize' (could probably use a better
>> name)
>> from inside of an org-mode buffer will use `org-export-as-html' to
>> generate HTML of the buffer (respecting regions and subtree
>> narrowing),
>> and will then package the resulting HTML with all linked images into a
>> message buffer.
>>
>> As usual thanks to Carsten's thoughtfully organized functions and
>> control variables this was surprisingly easy to implement.
>>
>> Cheers -- Eric
>>
>> The code is still up at http://github.com/eschulte/org-mime
>
> CONTIRB?  yes, after the release.....
>

Sounds great, I'm move this into contrib then. -- Eric

>
> - Carsten
>
>>
>> "Eric Schulte" <schulte.e...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Dan Davison <davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>
>>>> As I understand it the code you've written is designed to be
>>>> called in a
>>>> message-mode buffer with orgstruct-mode in force. Would it make
>>>> sense to
>>>> also include in your package a complementary function, that one
>>>> calls in
>>>> an org-mode buffer? I envisage this generating the HTML, forming the
>>>> multipart email contents, and then saving it to the kill ring, so
>>>> that
>>>> it can be pasted into an email.
>>>>
>>>> This function would have access to the directory-name and so
>>>> should be
>>>> able to resolve relative paths. Also, there might be some other
>>>> advantages -- for example when exporting just a region or subtree,
>>>> buffer-wide properties such as #+TITLE and #+AUTHOR are picked up
>>>> by the
>>>> org exporter and packaged into the HTML.
>>>>
>>>> In other words, can I use your machinery to package up the HTML
>>>> generated by Org's C-e dispatcher into an appropriately-constructed
>>>> email?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> That sounds like a good idea, I've added it to a fledgling task list
>>> packaged in the README at [1].  I'd say there are two options.
>>>
>>> 1) which you mentioned saving the entire exported content to the
>>>   kill-ring.  One problem here is that everything is still text and
>>>   pastable only *before* the mime export process, which means that
>>>   linked images wouldn't resolve after pasting into the email client.
>>>
>>> 2) having the function generate a new mail buffer containing the
>>>   exported content.  This buffer would need to have it's
>>>   `buffer-file-name' set, for images to resolve during export.  I'm
>>> not
>>>   sure how this should best work.
>>>
>>> Thanks -- Eric
>>>
>>> Footnotes:
>>> [1]  http://github.com/eschulte/org-mime
>>
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> - Carsten


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