Re: Mutt, Emacs and message-mode

On Mon, Dec 08, 2025 at 07:19:03PM +0100, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> To know whether it's in the headers or in the body, Emacs inserts a
> separator between headers and body which looks like this:

> --text follows this line--

I never liked this hack, even when I used Emacs packages to send mail.
TBH, I don't understand why it was ever done this way.

This was perhaps the main reason why, now that I use (neo)mutt for
mail but still Emacs as my editor, I wrote my own tiny but useful
mode.  Because mutt pre-fills the headers before calling the editor, a
lot of the functionality in the stock Emacs composer is redundant
anyway, and mine focuses on formatting the body, including quotes.

-- 
Ian