Emacs mail composer limitations
Emacs offers two easy-to-use methods for composing emails:
mail- a simple method for plain text email messagesmessage-mail- a more sophisticated option that supports multipart MIME messages
I will intentionally skip the GNUS and MH-E modes here.
Both of these email composers open a buffer with an email template, allowing for quick composition and sending with a single keystroke. They are ideal for sending a quick message while working on other tasks.
Gtk Emacs Key Bindings
On OpenBSD, Gtk applications use Emacs key bindings by default. I find
this frustrating, as I expect C-a to select the entire text.
To revert to the default key theme, I needed to modify some configuration files.
For Gtk 2, include the following in ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
gtk-key-theme-name = "Default"
For Gtk 3, make the following edit in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini:
[Settings]
gtk-key-theme-name = DefaultNow it feels better.