On 27/02/07, Richard Gananathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A while ago I switched to mutt for my email client because I heard good > things about it. I think the thing I like the most about it is being > able to write my messages with vim. (Pretty lame reason eh?)
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I wish more programs would allow the user to choose their own editor rather than including some dreadful built-in one with no more functionality than Windows Notepad. > One day I sent an email to a Japanese friend and he told me that he > couldn't read it. I also cannot read Japanese emails in mutt. > > So I have a bit of a problem. Is there a unicode fix for mutt? If so > that would be good but I don't think I'd be that lucky. Even if there > is, I didn't see a pacman package or aur pkgbuild, and I have never > compiled from source before so it might be tough. I used to use mutt & vim (before I started having to use Windows more than I would like: I now use gmail+vim) and I never had a problem with viewing Japanese text. Have you checked your locale settings include UTF8? You could also try using muttng (mutt with a few patches) if that doesn't help [1]. > > What are some other good email clients that have unicode support. I > haven't gotten too deep into mutt's features so if I pull out now I can > still live. I'd be sold if I could use vi with it. > > In fact while I'm at it, there isn't a way to use vim in the text entry > boxes for web browsers is there? Am I dreaming too much? There are two plugins for firefox that I know of that do this: "View Source With" [2] and "It's All Text" [3]. "It's All Text" is ergonomically better (it puts a little "edit" button in the bottom right hand corner of your textarea box), but I prefer "View Source With". "View Source With" has two advantages in my book: 1) You can use it to view the source of the page in Vim as well 2) It uses less random file names (for example, this file is named "mail.google.com_mailmsgbodyta_01172491420804.txt", so I can use an autocmd in Vim to automatically run ":setf mail" when editing these files). To use "View Source With" after installing & setting up, right-click on the text area and choose "View Source With", then "Gvim". Hope that's been of some help, Al [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=muttng [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/394/ [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4125/ _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
