;;; vms-pmail.el --- use Emacs as the editor within VMS mail ;; Copyright (C) 1992, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, ;; 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Roland B Roberts ;; Maintainer: FSF ;; Keywords: vms ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;;; Code: ;;; ;;; Quick hack to use emacs as mail editor. There are a *bunch* of ;;; changes scattered throughout emacs to make this work, namely: ;;; (1) mod to sysdep.c to allow emacs to attach to a process other ;;; than the one that originally spawned it. ;;; (2) mod to kepteditor.com to define the logical emacs_parent_pid ;;; which is what sysdep.c looks for, and define the logical ;;; emacs_command_args which contains the command line ;;; (3) mod to re-parse command line arguments from emacs_command_args ;;; then execute them as though emacs were just starting up. ;;; (defun vms-pmail-save-and-exit () "Save current buffer and exit Emacs. If this Emacs cannot be suspended, you will be prompted about modified buffers other than the mail buffer. BEWARE --- suspending Emacs without saving your mail buffer causes mail to abort the send (potentially useful since the mail buffer is still here)." (interactive) (basic-save-buffer) (if (vms-system-info "LOGICAL" "DONT_SUSPEND_EMACS") (progn (save-some-buffers) (kill-emacs 1)) (kill-buffer (current-buffer)) (suspend-emacs))) (defun vms-pmail-abort () "Mark buffer as unmodified and exit Emacs. When the editor is exited without saving its buffer, VMS mail does not send a message. If you have other modified buffers you will be prompted for what to do with them." (interactive) (if (not (yes-or-no-p "Really abort mail? ")) (ding) (not-modified) (if (vms-system-info "LOGICAL" "DONT_SUSPEND_EMACS") (progn (save-some-buffers) (kill-emacs 1)) (kill-buffer (current-buffer)) (suspend-emacs)))) (defun vms-pmail-setup () "Set up file assuming use by VMS MAIL utility. The buffer is put into text-mode, auto-save is turned off and the following bindings are established. \\[vms-pmail-save-and-exit] vms-pmail-save-and-exit \\[vms-pmail-abort] vms-pmail-abort All other Emacs commands are still available." (interactive) (auto-save-mode -1) (text-mode) (let ((default (vms-system-info "LOGICAL" "SYS$SCRATCH")) (directory (file-name-directory (buffer-file-name))) (filename (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-file-name)))) (if (string= directory "SYS$SCRATCH:") (progn (cd default) (setq buffer-file-name (concat default filename)))) (use-local-map (copy-keymap (current-local-map))) (local-set-key "\C-c\C-c" 'vms-pmail-save-and-exit) (local-set-key "\C-c\C-g" 'vms-pmail-abort))) (defun indicate-mail-reply-text () "Prepares received mail for re-sending by placing >'s on each line." (interactive) (goto-char (point-min)) (while (not (eobp)) (insert ">") (beginning-of-line) (forward-line 1)) (set-buffer-modified-p nil) (goto-char (point-min))) (defun insert-signature () "Moves to the end of the buffer and inserts a \"signature\" file. First try the file indicated by environment variable MAIL$TRAILER. If that fails, try the file \"~/.signature\". If neither file exists, fails quietly." (interactive) (goto-char (point-max)) (newline) (if (vms-system-info "LOGICAL" "MAIL$TRAILER") (if (file-attributes (vms-system-info "LOGICAL" "MAIL$TRAILER")) (insert-file-contents (vms-system-info "LOGICAL" "MAIL$TRAILER")) (if (file-attributes "~/.signature") (insert-file-contents "~/.signature"))))) (provide 'vms-pmail) ;;; arch-tag: 336850fc-7812-4663-8e4d-b9c13f47dce1 ;;; vms-pmail.el ends here