I am just curious ... can I use color in the emacs mail mode? I am using vim with mutt but I am considering emacs because of some clipboard problem with vim.
Thanks. On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 07:58:47PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 02:31:47PM -0700, Andy Davidson wrote: > > Yes, this is an Emacs question, but it is mutt related, so I thought I > > would ask it here. I found this at varous mutt places on the web and > > recently added the following to my .emacs profile and it sort-of works: > > > > (setq auto-mode-alist (append (list (cons "^\/tmp\/mutt" 'mail-mode)) > > auto-mode-alist)) > > (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'my-mail-mode-hook) > > (defun my-mail-mode-hook () > > (auto-fill-mode) > > ) > > > > The problem is that the mail-mode occurs, but the auto-fill-mode does > > not. I am firmly convinced that it did work once. And only once. > > > > Anybody got a spare clue for me? > > That's pretty much what I have, and it works for me. The only thing I > can think of is that (auto-fill-mode) doesn't *turn on* auto fill > mode, it *toggles* auto fill mode. Maybe you have code elsewhere in > your .emacs file that's turning it on, so then this line is turning it > back off. > > To always turn it on, try this instead: > > (auto-fill-mode 1) > > Good luck! >
