Subject: [sup-talk] Can't get emacs to open in flyspell-mode

From: [email-masked] (Steve Goldman)
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:07:57 -0500

I set my editor in config.yaml to:

emacs -f flyspell-mode -nw +8

This command works correctly from the command line, but when sup opens
emacs for composing, it uses -nw and +8 correctly but does not use
flyspell-mode.  Anyone have any luck with this?

Thanks.
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From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:02:56 -0800

> flyspell-mode.  Anyone have any luck with this?

Sup just does a system call to <editor> <filename>, with no fanciness,
so it's hard to imagine what would be wrong, unless it's some Emacs
wackiness. Time to switch to vi? :)
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Goldman)
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:23:08 -0500

> wackiness. Time to switch to vi? :)

Yeah, looks like it's an emacs thing.  When I run it from the command
line with a file argument, it doesn't work.  Sorry for the time
waste...
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Steve Goldman

T: 212.219.6014
F: 212.219.6007

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From: [email-masked] (Christopher Warrington)
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:03:06 -0600

> flyspell-mode.  Anyone have any luck with this?

I set my editor to be emacsclient and added this to my .emacs:

; disable longlines-mode for e-mail
; mail-mode runs text-mode first.
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
'("sup\\.\\(compose\\|forward\\|reply\\|resume\\)-mode$" . mail-mode))
(add-hook 'mail-mode-hook (function (lambda ()
                                      (longlines-mode 0)
                                      (auto-fill-mode 1))))

Using emacsclient keeps one copy of emacs open, but each invocation of
emacsclient opens a new buffer with the given file. I always used sup while
using a windowing environment at the same time.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/EmacsClient

Even if you don't use a windowing environment, the mail-mode modification
should work. It will also give you some nice features like quote
highlighting while editing (assuming font-lock is on).

-- 
Christopher Warrington <chrisw at rice.edu>

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Goldman)
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:24:38 -0500

> highlighting while editing (assuming font-lock is on).

Combining Christopher's idea with something I found on the internet,
putting the following in my .emacs opens sup buffers with
flyspell-mode enabled.  Warning, flyspell checks all the text in the
buffer before letting you work, so if you are quoting a really long
chain of emails, this can take a few seconds.

;; flyspell stuff

(setq mail-mode-hook (quote (#[nil "\300\301!\207" [flyspell-mode 1] 2] flyspell-buffer mail-mode-hook-identify)))
-- 

Steve Goldman

T: 212.219.6014
F: 212.219.6007

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From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:13:57 -0800

Reformatted excerpts from Steve Goldman's message of 2008-11-07:
> flyspell-mode enabled.

A gold star, and a free copy of Sup, to whoever adds their precious
knowledge to the Wiki:

  http://sup.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?EmacsIntegration
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>