Re: Use Emacs to compose emails for Gmail web interface

[James Freer]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Jorge <1gato0a@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.  I use Gmail's web interface.  In the long run I may change to an Emacs
> mail client, but I am out of time right now and Gmail has been working very
> well.
>
> The one irritation is that every time I compose an email, I type `c' in Gmail
> (to open compose), then C-a (to select all), C-c , change focus to Emacs, 
> C-M-y
> (which I have bound to clipboard-yank), M-x delete-trailing-whitespace, edit
> the email, C-x h, C-M-w (which I have bound to clipboard-kill-ring-save), 
> change
> focus to gmail, C-v.
>
> Is there a quicker way?
>
> It would be better if Gmail worked with the Firefox extension `It's all text',
> which it used to; but since Gmail moved to the "new compose experience" it
> doesn't work anymore.

You may like to try Gmelius which will give you a wider compose and
reply window, and remove all adds, chat etc.

I tend to use the Gmail UI for mailing lists like this where one can
have loads of replies and the conversation keeps all topics together.
I find Alpine works very well with Emacs as the editor... configured
remotely (i.e. not downloading headers) suits the frequent linux
release schedule. T'Bird and Evolution I found far too slow. Like you
I don't have a lot of time for setting up so this suits me. Mutt and
the Emacs email clients take too long to set up for me.

james