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Christopher Biggs <chris at stallion.oz.au> writes:

> Jason Henry Parker <jasonp at uq.net.au> moved upon the face of the
> 'Net and spake thusly:
> > Now this interests me.  I can whip out something damn quick, too, but
> > I'm looking for some nice templates---I'm assuming you use either a
> > `fill in the blanks' file which you copy, or have some neato macros;
> > would you care to share either of them?
> Often I just start from the last letter I wrote. 

Right; that's what I'm doing these days.  Hmm, I wonder if I could
hook in the BBDB stuff to send snail mail letters to people listed in
it.

> In general, I use the Emacs[1] "auto-insert-tkld" package, which takes a
> template file and (optionally) asks some fill-in-the-blanks questions.

Hmm, I'll take a look at some point, then.

> I can send (or post) the template rules and the template file(s) if
> you want them.

That'd be neat; post or mail as you see fit.

> [1] My GNU Emacs custom startup file runs to (clickety click) 177k.

$ du -sh .emacs
12k     .emacs

I feel inadequate.

jason
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