Re: start emacs in mail mode?

[Kevin Rodgers]

wdn wrote:
> I would like to open emacs in mail-mode on a preformated mail message, ready
> to edit as necessary and then send.  (This is from a perl script that
> gathers the necessary data for the email and composes a draft of the email
> to potential authors of a journal I edit.)
>
> My only idea was to try "emacs -f mail-mode tempmail" 
>
> It does not do it. It opens the file tempmail in one buffer and starts
> mail-mode in a separate background buffer.  So I still have to do "M-x
> mail-mode" and then respond to a prompt whether I really want to send the
> current buffer when I try to send the email.

Action arguments and options are processed in order, so:
emacs tempmail -f mail-mode

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Kevin Rodgers