On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 12:43:20 AM UTC-5, Uday S Reddy wrote: > Robert Goldman writes: > > I note that the VM manual states that it uses mail-mode, rather than > > message-mode for composing email. > > Not exactly. When you use VM, you get to use what you might call > vm-mail-mode, which is built on top of mail-mode. To "use" message-mode > with VM, VM has to be modified to do that, which is on our To-do list but it > is of low priority at this point.
Thanks. I didn't fully understand what "use" meant in this context. > > > I'm using Emacs 24, where message mode is the default, which means that a > > rash keystroke can send me into message-mode, and message mode is better > > supported than mail-mode. > > What keystroke can send you into message-mode? You mean, if you run `C-x m' > before you load VM, you get message-mode? If that is an issue, you might > want to bind `C-x m' in your .emacs. I see that it is even easier than that: I need to customize (or, for an old-schooler like me), the mail-user-agent variable to be sendmail-user-agent, instead of the default message-user-agent, and that controls what C-x m does. Question: should one do something different to get a vm-ified mail mode? Or should the VM community offer its own value for mail-user-agent that would be vm-mail-user-agent? Thanks for the help! Robert
