message: Message Actions
3.10 Message Actions
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When Message is being used from a news/mail reader, the reader is likely
to want to perform some task after the message has been sent. Perhaps
return to the previous window configuration or mark an article as
replied.
The user may exit from the message buffer in various ways. The most
common is ‘C-c C-c’, which sends the message and exits. Other
possibilities are ‘C-c C-s’ which just sends the message, ‘C-c C-d’
which postpones the message editing and buries the message buffer, and
‘C-c C-k’ which kills the message buffer. Each of these actions have
lists associated with them that contains actions to be executed:
‘message-send-actions’, ‘message-exit-actions’,
‘message-postpone-actions’, and ‘message-kill-actions’.
Message provides a function to interface with these lists:
‘message-add-action’. The first parameter is the action to be added,
and the rest of the arguments are which lists to add this action to.
Here’s an example from Gnus:
(message-add-action
`(set-window-configuration ,(current-window-configuration))
'exit 'postpone 'kill)
This restores the Gnus window configuration when the message buffer
is killed, postponed or exited.
An “action” can be either: a normal function, or a list where the CAR
is a function and the CDR is the list of arguments, or a form to be
‘eval’ed.
Info Catalog
message: Message Buffers
message: Variables