On 2018-10-23 22:31, Nuno Silva wrote:
> So far I did not find a way to change this on the mutt side, but I made
> a new major mode for mutt messages in Emacs (the editor I use with
> mutt), with a hook that changes the file encoding to latin1 if the file
> was opened in a latin1 terminal and Emacs cannot detect a non-ASCII file
> encoding.
>
> It appears to work here. I'm sure someone who is more versed in Emacs
> than me would be able to come up with a more elegant solution, but I'm
> sharing mine here just in case it is useful to somebody else someday:
>
> (define-derived-mode my-mutt-message-mode message-mode "MuttMSG")
> (add-hook
> 'my-mutt-message-mode-hook
> (lambda ()
> (when (equal (terminal-coding-system) 'iso-latin-1-unix)
> (let ((encoding (detect-coding-region (point-min) (point-max))))
> (when (or
> (equal encoding '(undecided-unix))
> (equal encoding '(undecided)))
> (setq buffer-file-coding-system 'iso-latin-1-unix))))))
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("/mutt" . my-mutt-message-mode))
You could just hook message-mode-hook with a function that checks
buffer-file-name, I think that would be a bit more straightforward than
adding a new mode.
Other possibilities: you could handle this still in Emacs, but after you
finish writing, at the point you save the temporary file (with one of
the write hooks). Or you can write a script that runs Emacs and then
recodes the file outside of Emacs, using something like iconv(1).
--
Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet,
if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup.
To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists
which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
