Re: emacs mail mode?

[Rob Reid]

At  6:54 AM EDT on June 14 Joachim Weiss sent off:
 Try mail-mode instead of auto-fill-mode. This gives you word wrap and
 it can handle quotations (if you are using font-lock-mode this gives you
 colored quotations, in addition emacs is able to rearrange paragraphs
 (M-q) with quotations in it, keeping the quote character in the first
 column...)

I recommend post mode 

http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/mutt/post.el.gz

instead, since it'll give you all that and more without having emacs think that
it will be sending out your mail itself.  Emacs, at least by default with my
version, uses a slightly different message format, but post has other
advantages. 

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Re: emacs mail mode?

[Rebecca Lynne Sutton]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:25:28AM -0400, mofo wrote:
 I'd like to use emacs (or possibly jed) as my editor for mutt but haven't
 been able to figure out how to automatically create a word wrap at 72 cols.
 I know how to do it in vim but am not yet comfortable enough with it to use
 it exclusively.
 
 thanks.

I have this in my .emacs:

;; mutt-* files
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\\mutt-" . auto-fill-mode) auto-mode-alist))


Works for me.

rebecca