This is a fork of post-mode, providing updates, minor bug fixes, improved documentation and configuration information. The url of this fork is: https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/post-mode

post-mode

This is a major mode for use with mutt, neomutt (https://neomutt.org), slrn (http://slrn.sourceforge.net/), or most email and newsreaders that allow you to use an external editor.

Installation

1] Add a few lines to emacs init file (usually ~/.emacs).

1.1] If you manually downloaded this file and want to make this package available to all your users, type "C-h v load-path RET", pick an appropriate system-wide directory for `post.el', and modify your sitewide default.el to include:

   (require 'post).

1.2] If you installed this package using your distribution's package manager (eg. for debian, apt-get post-el) or using the emacs package manager, or if you manually copied this file to a directory already on your emacs load path ("C-h v load-path" to see):

   (require 'post)

1.3] If you manually copied this file elsewhere and want to add that directory to your emacs load path:

   (add-to-list 'load-path "path/to/directory/")
   (require 'post)

1.4] If you manually copied this file elsewhere and don't want to add that directory to your emacs load path:

   (load "/your/local/path/to/this/file/post")

 Note that you can omit the ".el" from the file name when
 calling load.

2] Optionally, here are some additional settings to consider adding after the above, as a good start to making your user experience a bit nicer:

 (defun my-post-mode-hook()
   (setq
     fill-column 72    ; rfc 1855 for usenet messages
     post-signature-source-is-file t
     post-variable-signature-source "~/mutt/.signatures.fortune"
     post-fixed-signature-source    "~/mutt/.signature"
     post-signature-directory       "~/mutt/.signatures/"
     post-signature-wildcard        "sig*"
     post-random-signature-command  "fortune ~/mutt/.signatures.fortune"
     post-kill-quoted-sig t
     post-should-prompt-for-attachment "Smart")
   (footnote-mode)
   (flyspell-mode))
 (add-hook 'post-mode-hook 'my-post-mode-hook)

New in this fork

I'm only starting this list in December 2019, so this list will be missing changes of the previous few years until I go back and look at the diffs.

• Improved quoting and unquoting of regions: You can now use the prefix argument to perform either operation multiple times, and the operation automatically autfills, so the result is properly formatted.

Some other Emacs software I've published

• Diredc

  • Large collection of interoperable dired extensions
  • https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/emacs-diredc

• Emacs-w3m

  • Extensions to the classic web browser (fork)
    • Advanced downloader (bulk, regex, queue management, resume aborted)
    • Scrub history
    • More ...
  • https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/emacs-w3m

• Crossword

  • Download and play crossword puzzles, in Emacs!
  • https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/emacs-crossword

• Key-assist

  • Simple keybinding cheatsheet and launcher
  • https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/emacs-key-assist

• Home-end

  • Turn home and end keys to multi-use navigation keys
  • https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/emacs-home-end

• Keypress-multi-event

  • perform different actions when repeating a key
  • https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/emacs-keypress-multi-event