Re: Question about mailedit.sl docs

[Marc Haber <mh+jed-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:55:10PM +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+jed-users-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using jed 0.99.18 on Debian sid[1], which includes a library of
> > extensions. I do not know whether this mailing list is appropriate for
> > questions. If it is not, please point me to the right list.
> >
> > I am trying to use mailedit.sl which is placed into
> > /usr/share/jed/lib/mailedit.sl by the Debian packages.
> 
> This is the upstream version.

No offense intended. I just was not aware where the original code
places that file and thus wanted to avoid confusion.

> > I'd like to use this function to define key sequences like "^Cs" to
> > jump to certain headers, like the Subject, for example. I do not have
> > any idea how to accomplish this.
> 
> Create your own goto_header function in your jed.rc.
> 
> define my_goto_header(header)
> {
>     variable mark = create_user_mark();
>     bob();
>     !if ( bol_fsearch("\n") )
>     {
>         goto_user_mark(mark);
>         throw UsageError, "No headers found in this buffer";
>     }
>     !if ( bol_bsearch(header+":") )
>     {
>         goto_user_mark(mark);
>         throw UsageError, "Header not found";
>     }
> }
> 
> and then define your keys:
> 
> definekey_reserved("my_goto_header(\"Subject\")", "s", "mailedit");
> definekey_reserved("my_goto_header(\"From\")", "f", "mailedit");
> definekey_reserved("my_goto_header(\"Expires\")", "e", "mailedit");

With that, I get "Unknown keymap: mailedit" on startup.

> > Using goto_header in a setkey statement in my keybindings_hook does not
> > seem to work as well as defining my own function (define
> > mail_edit_subject() { goto_header("Subject"); }) in ~/.jed/jed.rc. I
> > suspect this is because mailedit definies goto_header as private.
> 
> Yes, you are right. You cannot access a private function outside of the
> file it was defined in.

I see. Why was goto_header defined in the first place if it is not
useable and not used?

> > Are there any docs how to make use of the mailedit mode?
> 
> Unfortunately, no

A pity.

Greetings
Marc

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