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From: bard@THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Editing letters in text-mode with emacs under the elm mailer
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Date: 20 Feb 89 01:31:48 GMT
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> Problem: when invoking emacs from within elm I would like it to
> automatically edit the temporary letter file in text-mode.  Normally,
> typing the command:

If you have a pattern matching elm's temporary file names, you can use
auto-mode-alist -- something like:

  (setq auto-mode-alist 
    (cons '("letterfile$" . text-mode)
          auto-mode-alist))

which will turn on text mode whenever you edit a file whose name ends with
the string "letterfile".  

-- Bard the emacs gargoyle