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Let's start our tour by sending ourselves a message which we can later read and process. Enter M-x mh-smail to invoke the MH-E program to send messages. Your message appears in an Emacs buffer whose mode1 is MH-Letter.
Enter your login name in the `To:' header field. Press the <TAB> twice to move the cursor past the `Cc:' field, since no carbon copies are to be sent, and on to the `Subject:' field. Enter Test or anything else that comes to mind.
Press <TAB> again to move the cursor to the body of the message. Enter some text, using normal Emacs commands. You should now have something like this2:
--:-- *scratch* All L1 (Lisp Interaction)------------------------- To: wohler cc: Subject: Test X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.1 -------- This is a test message to get the wheels churning...# --:** {draft} All L5 (MH-Letter)---------------------------------- Type C-c C-c to send message, C-C ? for help |
Note the line of dashes that separates the header and the body of the message. It is essential that these dashes (or a blank line) are present or the body of your message will be considered to be part of the header.
There are several commands specific to MH-Letter mode3, but at this time we'll only use C-c C-c to send your message. Type C-c C-c now. That's all there is to it!
[1] A mode changes Emacs to make it easier to edit a particular type of text.
[2] If you're running Emacs under the X Window System, then you would also see a menu bar and a tool bar. I've left out the menu bar and tool bar in all of the example screens.
[3] You can
get quick help for the commands used most often with C-c ? or
more complete help with the C-h m (describe-mode
)
command.