[setopt]

Interesting idea.

I guess one alternative approach would be to defadvice “howm-create” to prompt for a major mode, e.g. by let-binding the “howm-template” variable to contain “-- mode: … --“ on top and prompt the user for a mode?

[artsi0m]

Thanks, this sound reasonable actually.

Maybe, I would think about implementing it in this way.

Actually I don't really want to create a separate emacs package, but rather merge my code with main howm repo at some point, when it would be good enough.

Creating your own package would be acceptable alternative to this, though.

I also should add, that I can add enabling external grep part to my short howm config, but it seems to slow down howm, rather speed it up, when using it on windows.