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From: danj1@ulysses.att.com (Dan Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Forcing mail to use emacs [now an ad for GNU Emacs' "VM" mailer]
Summary: VM
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Date: 11 Nov 90 16:06:15 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.234727.14951@portia.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1990Nov8.234727.14951@portia.Stanford.EDU> patrick@casbs.Stanford.EDU (Patrick Goebel) writes:
>Now here's the million dollar question: Is there any way to have mail
>default to emacs WITHOUT having to type ~e?  As a (green) system
>administrator, such a setting would be invaluable to the more naive
>users.

Your GNU Emacs should be sporting the triple cool add-on "VM" mail
system by Kyle Jones: [write to info-vm-request@uunet.uu.net].
There's also the older RMAIL system.  Next step after that is to add
on the GNUS newsreader, then you're really rolling.

If you're chicken about VM, you can toy with emacsclient (in the emacs
file tree) and the function server-start.

"~e", mailx: Mwahahahahahahah [evil laughter]

Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM