Re: How to pipe text or load a file directly into mail-mode?

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-05-04, Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> wrote:

> Well, via '-nw' you tell emacs to use the tty as input, but the tty is
> already used by perl.  Do you really need '-nw'?  If you really need
> -nw, you could try something along the lines of
>
>   system("emacs -nw $tempfile -f mail-mode </dev/tty");
>
> I.e. use shell input redirection to the controlling tty.  I have no
> idea how robust that would be, and would rather get rid of the '-nw'.

Maybe it would help if I explained what I'm *really* trying to do.  I
get usenet access by opening an xterm, logging into a server and
running slrn.  I really like like slrn except that I can't customize
forwarding articles by e-mail the way I'd like, so I want to bind a
slrn key to a command that just pipes the current article to an
external program.

That external program I want to be a Perl script that puts some stuff
at the beginning of the article, prefaces it with my custom headers,
and then opens it in Emacs in mail-mode (so I can use my ~/.mailrc
aliases and all the other great stuff that Emacs does).  Maybe I need
to store the article in a /tmp file then load it into the Perl
program, instead of piping it into the program's STDIN.