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From: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)
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Subject: Re: Editing letters in text-mode with emacs under the elm mailer
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Date: 20 Feb 89 05:12:36 GMT
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In-reply-to: larsen@imada.dk (Larsen Soren)

In article <156@imada.dk>, larsen@imada.dk (Larsen Soren) writes:
> Problem: when invoking emacs from within elm I would like it to
> automatically edit the temporary letter file in text-mode.

I don't know what elm files look like, but 

  - if they always have similar names, you can add a pattern to the variable
    auto-mode-alist that will invoke text-mode on those files.  E.g., if elm
    files are always called something like /tmp/elm.45 (I'm making this up),
    you can add the pair ("/tmp/elm" . text-mode) to auto-mode-alist.

  - if they always have similar contents, you can use the infer-mode.el
    program that was posted earlier and add a pattern to the variable
    infer-mode-alist that will invoke text-mode on those files.  E.g., if elm
    files always contain a "Subject:" line (I'm making this up), you can add
    the pair ("^Subject:" . text-mode) to infer-mode-alist.  [I can send you
    infer-mode.el if you don't have it.]

Hope this helps,

-- Ashwin.

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