gtravan@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (George Travan) (03/01/90)
Suns Mailtool has an option to pipe the mail buffer contents. i use this to postprocess mail via a pretty printer in suntools. it would be nice though to do this in GNUS and RMAIL. presently, the only way i see to do this in emacs is to output the file in Unix format and then enter a shell to set up the command. is there an easier way to do this ? the c-o and then within a shell cat unixfile > prettyprint | lpr & any ideas appreciated.. George Travan University of Adelaide Box 498 G.P.O gtravan@sirius.ua.oz.au Adelaide,AUSTRALIA e_mail: george@frodo.ua.oz.au
mleisher@nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher) (03/01/90)
(defun pretty-print-buffer ()
(interactive)
(shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max)
"prettyprint | lpr" nil))
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In article <782@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>, gtravan@ucs (George Travan) writes: >Suns Mailtool has an option to pipe the mail buffer contents. i use this to >postprocess mail via a pretty printer in suntools. it would be nice though >to do this in GNUS and RMAIL. I would recommend using the `shell-command-on-region' command, bound to `M-|' by default. You can use `C-x h' to mark the whole buffer. --woodstock -- "What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking and thinking...and suddenly you wake up." - Hobbes nhess@oracle.com or ...!uunet!oracle!nhess or (415) 598-3046
spencer@eecs.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas) (03/02/90)
[Query about sending articles (in gnus) or mail messages (in RMAIL) to a process instead of a file.] In gnus, try the '|' key, which is bound to gnus-Subject-pipe-output: Pipe this article to subprocess. Apparently RMAIL doesn't have this, but you can use M-| on the article buffer. =S -- =Spencer (spencer@eecs.umich.edu)