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From: matt@ODDJOB.UCHICAGO.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Default editor switches in .mh_profile
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Date: 13 Mar 91 17:05:43 GMT
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There are at least two ways to do the job.  One is to create,
somewhere in your path, a file called emacs-text-mode, mode 755,
which contains:

#!/bin/sh
exec emacs -f text-mode $*

Then use "Editor: emacs-text-mode" in .mh_profile.


The other way is to put this into your .emacs file:

(setq auto-mode-alist (nconc '(("draft$" . text-mode)
			       ("Mail/drafts/[0-9]+$" . text-mode))
			     auto-mode-alist))

and continue to use "Editor: emacs".  See C-H v auto-mode-alist to
understand this.
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Matt Crawford	     		matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu