1 ;;; messcompat.el --- making message mode compatible with mail mode
2 ;; Copyright (C) 1996,97 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 ;; Author: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
5 ;; Keywords: mail, news
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26 ;; This file tries to provide backward compatability with sendmail.el
27 ;; for Message mode. It should be used by simply adding
29 ;; (require 'messcompat)
31 ;; to the .emacs file. Loading it after Message mode has been
32 ;; loaded will have no effect.
38 (defvar message-from-style mail-from-style
39 "*Specifies how \"From\" headers look.
41 If `nil', they contain just the return address like:
43 If `parens', they look like:
44 king@grassland.com (Elvis Parsley)
45 If `angles', they look like:
46 Elvis Parsley <king@grassland.com>
48 Otherwise, most addresses look like `angles', but they look like
49 `parens' if `angles' would need quoting and `parens' would not.")
51 (defvar message-interactive mail-interactive
52 "Non-nil means when sending a message wait for and display errors.
53 nil means let mailer mail back a message to report errors.")
55 (defvar message-setup-hook mail-setup-hook
56 "Normal hook, run each time a new outgoing message is initialized.
57 The function `message-setup' runs this hook.")
59 (defvar message-mode-hook mail-mode-hook
60 "Hook run in message mode buffers.")
62 (defvar message-indentation-spaces mail-indentation-spaces
63 "*Number of spaces to insert at the beginning of each cited line.
64 Used by `message-yank-original' via `message-yank-cite'.")
66 (defvar message-signature mail-signature
67 "*String to be inserted at the end of the message buffer.
68 If t, the `message-signature-file' file will be inserted instead.
69 If a function, the result from the function will be used instead.
70 If a form, the result from the form will be used instead.")
73 (defvar message-signature-file mail-signature-file
74 "*File containing the text inserted at end of message. buffer.")
76 (defvar message-default-headers mail-default-headers
77 "*A string containing header lines to be inserted in outgoing messages.
78 It is inserted before you edit the message, so you can edit or delete
81 (defvar message-send-hook mail-send-hook
82 "Hook run before sending messages.")
86 ;;; messcompat.el ends here