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(emacs)Mail Mode Misc

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Mail Mode Miscellany
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`C-c C-t'
     Move to the beginning of the message body text (`mail-text').

`C-c C-w'
     Insert the file `~/.signature' at the end of the message text
     (`mail-signature').

`C-c C-i FILE <RET>'
     Insert the contents of FILE at the end of the outgoing message
     (`mail-attach-file').

`M-x ispell-message'
     Perform spelling correction on the message text, but not on
     citations from other messages.

   `C-c C-t' (`mail-text') moves point to just after the header
separator line--that is, to the beginning of the message body text.

   `C-c C-w' (`mail-signature') adds a standard piece of text at the
end of the message to say more about who you are.  The text comes from
the file `~/.signature' in your home directory.  To insert your
signature automatically, set the variable `mail-signature' to `t';
after that, starting a mail message automatically inserts the contents
of your `~/.signature' file.  If you want to omit your signature from a
particular message, delete it from the buffer before you send the
message.

   You can also set `mail-signature' to a string; then that string is
inserted automatically as your signature when you start editing a
message to send.  If you set it to some other Lisp expression, the
expression is evaluated each time, and its value (which should be a
string) specifies the signature.

   You can do spelling correction on the message text you have written
with the command `M-x ispell-message'.  If you have yanked an incoming
message into the outgoing draft, this command skips what was yanked,
but it checks the text that you yourself inserted.  (It looks for
indentation or `mail-yank-prefix' to distinguish the cited lines from
your input.)  Note: Spelling.

   To include a file in the outgoing message, you can use `C-x i', the
usual command to insert a file in the current buffer.  But it is often
more convenient to use a special command, `C-c C-i'
(`mail-attach-file').  This command inserts the file contents at the
end of the buffer, after your signature if any, with a delimiter line
that includes the file name.

   Turning on Mail mode (which `C-x m' does automatically) runs the
normal hooks `text-mode-hook' and `mail-mode-hook'.  Initializing a new
outgoing message runs the normal hook `mail-setup-hook'; if you want to
add special fields to your mail header or make other changes to the
appearance of the mail buffer, use that hook.  Note: Hooks.

   The main difference between these hooks is just when they are
invoked.  Whenever you type `M-x mail', `mail-mode-hook' runs as soon
as the `*mail*' buffer is created.  Then the `mail-setup' function
inserts the default contents of the buffer.  After these default
contents are inserted, `mail-setup-hook' runs.