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  1. Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!splinter.coe.northeastern.edu!ratinox
  3. From: ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Richard Pieri/Stainless Steel Rat)
  4. Subject: dired rmail
  5. Message-ID: <gnusenetRATINOX.92Sep7152305@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
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  7. Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
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  9. Organization: 3WA, Boston Office. Or Nu Meta Chi. Take your pick.
  10. Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:23:05 GMT
  11. Lines: 25
  12.  
  13. A while back, someone asked about being able to run Rmail on a file in a
  14. dired mode buffer. So I was hacking around and figured it couldn't be that
  15. difficult to do, so...
  16.  
  17. (defun dired-rmail ()
  18.   "Run Rmail on this file."
  19.   (interactive)
  20.   (rmail-input (dired-get-filename)))
  21.  
  22. It can be bound to "R" inside dired-mode hook with
  23.  
  24. (setq dired-mode-hook
  25.       (local-set-key "R" 'dired-rmail))
  26.  
  27. --Rat
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