Re: Message mode and emacsclient

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2015-07-11 22:50 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> On 2015-07-07 14:30 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > To read my mail these days I use mutt over a ssh connection to the mail
> > server.  On the mail server I always have an emacs --daemon running, and
> > I tell mutt to call emacsclient as the external editor when I need to
> > compose a message.  I use the predictable temporary filename pattern in
> > auto-mode-alist to put the client buffer into message-mode (more
> > precisely, gnus-article-edit-mode which inherits almost everything from
> > message-mode).
> > 
> > All this works almost perfectly, with one annoying nit.  Immediately
> > after I land in emacs with the temporary file loaded, if I try one of
> > the message keybindings to move to a header field (for instance, C-c C-f
> > C-s to move to the Subject: field), after the C-c C-f emacs barfs with
> > "C-c C-f is undefined".  But when I try the same key combination again,
> > it works!  And it also works if I do anything else in the buffer first,
> > such as C-g.  It is as if emacs was in some kind of temporary mode like
> > those modes used in the minibuffer and had to quit the temporary mode
> > first to allow normal editing.
> > 
> > Does this sound in the least bit familiar?  My hunch is that it may not
> > be specific to message-mode but may be a more generic buglet with
> > emacsclient and multilevel keymaps.
> 
> I have now tried to do this with pure message-mode, just to be sure the
> few additional goodies gnus-article-edit-mode strings on aren't to
> blame.  The problem stays the same.
> 
> There seems to be some kind of timeout.  What I mean is, after this
> happens, I force it to behave, I compose my message and send it off, if
> I go compose another message within a minute or so, it works fine from
> the start.  But if I wait longer, it happens again.
> 
> I am stumped.  Anyone?

For what it is worth, this is the workaround I have settled on, ugly as
sin (tested and "works"):

(add-hook 'message-mode-hook
  (lambda ()
    (setq unread-command-events
        (append (listify-key-sequence "\C-g") unread-command-events)))
  'append)

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