file attach using wanderlust

[ygm-nob]

Recently I started to use ivy-bibtex. I want to thank the author.
I'd like to attach the pdf file to email, but I am using wanderlust as a mailer. Can I do it?

ygm

[tmalsburg]

Hi and thanks. I'm not familiar with wanderlust. My code is using mml-attach-file which I think is generic and should also work with wanderlust. (I'm using mu4e.) Start a new e-mail, then select an entry in ivy-bibtex, and then select the action "Attach PDF to email". Let me know how it goes.

[ygm-nob]

Hi, thank you for your quick hint and suggestion. I changed from mml-attach-file to mime-edit-insert-file, which is the function for attachment file in wanderlust, in bibtex-completion.el. Finally, it works! Thanks again.

ygm

[tmalsburg]

Great. The question is how can we make this work out of the box for other users of as well. Does wanderlust activate a special mode for writing e-mails? If yes, we could use one or the other function depending on that mode.

[ygm-nob]

I can't understand "a special mode for writing e-mail". While I am writing a email on wanderlust and want to attach pdf in my library, I execute ivy-bibtex and select pdf and press 'M-o a'. That's all. For other wanderlust users, I have no idea, sorry.

ygm

[tmalsburg]

Modes are a technical Emacs concept. Could you please start a new e-mail, then execute the following keyboard shortcut C-h m, and paste the output you get?

[ygm-nob]

C-h is assigned to backspace on my emacs. So, C-h m is just "m". Am I wrong?

ygm

[tmalsburg]

I'm not sure I'm following. If backspace is the same as C-h how do you delete characters? But never mind, you can also do M-x describe-mode.

[ygm-nob]

I excuted M-x describe-mode and I got followings; Do you need more? ygm

Enabled minor modes: Auto-Composition Auto-Compression Auto-Encryption
Auto-Fill Auto-Fill Avy-Migemo Blink-Cursor Centered-Cursor
Column-Number Company Counsel Diff-Auto-Refine Dimmer Display-Time
Electric-Indent Electric-Pair File-Name-Shadow Fish-Completion
Font-Lock Global-Centered-Cursor Global-Color-Identifiers
Global-Company Global-Eldoc Global-Fish-Completion Global-Font-Lock
Global-Hl-Line Global-Whitespace Ivy Ivy-File-Preview Line-Number
Mouse-Wheel Multicolumn-Global Openwith Override-Global Recentf
Selected Selected-Global Shell-Dirtrack Show-Paren Tabbar Tooltip
Transient-Mark Yas Yas-Global

[tmalsburg]

Hm, on my system the output also indicates the major mode but that's apparently not the case on your system. Could you tell me the output you get when you enter M-x describe-variable, return, and then enter major-mode? Thanks.

[ygm-nob]

Hi, I couldn't understand what you said. But I got following message.
ygm

major-mode is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
Its value is ‘wl-folder-mode’
Original value was fundamental-mode
Local in buffer Folder; global value is fundamental-mode

Automatically becomes buffer-local when set.

Documentation:
Symbol for current buffer’s major mode.
The default value (normally ‘fundamental-mode’) affects new buffers.
A value of nil means to use the current buffer’s major mode, provided
it is not marked as "special".

You can customize this variable.

[back]

[tmalsburg]

Did you get this output when you checked the major mode while being in a new email? wl-folder-mode sounds as if it was done while looking at a folder, but I'm not familiar with Wanderlust, so I'm not sure.

[tmalsburg]

From reading WL's code, I get the impression that new e-mails are edited in wl-draft-mode but it would be good to have confirmation.

[ygm-nob]

I don't know about wanderlust code and I am just user. But I know that there are three main modes: summary, folder and draft mode. I write and edit email on draft-mode.

ygm

[tmalsburg]

So it's probably wl-draft-mode. I took a note and will add support for that when I have a bit more time.