If you would like to use address autocompletion when composing
messages, see [address completion](#address_completion).
-When you are ready to send a message, type `C-c C-c`. By default
+When you are ready to send a message, type `C-c C-c`. By default
message mode will use your sendmail command to send mail, so make sure
-that works. One annoying standard configuration of message mode is
+that works. One annoying standard configuration of message mode is
that it will hide the sent mail in your emacs frame stack, but it will
not close it. If you type several mails in an emacs session they will
accumulate and make switching between buffers more annoying. You can
avoid that behavior by adding `(setq message-kill-buffer-on-exit t)`
-in your `.emacs` file which will really close the mail window after
-sending it.
+in your `.emacs` file (or doing M-x customize-variable
+message-kill-buffer-on-exit) which will really close the mail window
+after sending it.
## Attaching files
The first option is theorically better, because it can generate
strings formatted for emacs and do whatever you want, e.g., substitute
-text inside <b> tags for bold text in the buffer. The library, however
+text inside <b> tags for bold text in the buffer. The library, however
is still in a very early development phase and cannot yet process
properly many elements, like tables and <style> directives, and even
the generated text is often poorly formatted.
the html, and if you have the w3m emacs package, you can use it,
instead of the w3m-standalone, and thus preserve the text formatting.
-But if the rendering fails for one reason or another, (or is perhaps
-inadequate if you really need to see the graphical presentation of the
-HTML message), it can be useful to display the message in an external
-viewer, such as a web browser. Here's a little script that Keith
-Packard wrote, which he calls `view-html`:
+But if the rendering fails for one reason or another, or if you really
+need to see the graphical presentation of the HTML message, it can be
+useful to display the message in an external viewer, such as a web
+browser. Here's a little script that Keith Packard wrote, which he
+calls `view-html`:
#!/bin/sh
dir=`mktemp -d`
available:
* The python tool `notmuch_address.py` (`git clone
- http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git`) (slower, but
+ http://commonmeasure.org/~jkr/git/notmuch_addresses.git`) (slower, but
no compilation required so good for testing the setup)
* The vala-based
cc -o addrlookup addrlookup.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gobject-2.0` -lnotmuch
-EUDC is integrated into emacs and is needed for tab completion of
-email addresses. See [this
-mail](http://mid.gmane.org/87fx3uflkx.fsf@jhu.edu)
-(id:87fx3uflkx.fsf@jhu.edu) for more information.
+You can perform tab-completion using either of these programs. Just add the following to your .emacs:
+
+ (require 'notmuch-address)
+ (setq notmuch-address-command "/path/to/address_fetching_program")
+ (notmuch-address-message-insinuate)
+
## How to sign/encrypt messages with gpg