Function: mail-hist-previous-input

mail-hist-previous-input is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in mail-hist.el.gz.

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(mail-hist-previous-input HEADER)

Documentation

Insert the previous contents of this mail header or message body.

Moves back through the history of sent mail messages. Each header has its own independent history, as does the body of the message.

The history only contains the contents of outgoing messages, not received mail.

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Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/mail/mail-hist.el.gz
(defun mail-hist-previous-input (header)
  "Insert the previous contents of this mail header or message body.
Moves back through the history of sent mail messages.  Each header has
its own independent history, as does the body of the message.

The history only contains the contents of outgoing messages, not
received mail."
  (interactive (list (or (mail-hist-current-header-name) "body")))
  (mail-hist-retrieve-and-insert header 'ring-plus1))