Just because I'm a little bit nuts today, This link (http://globs.chez.tiscali.fr/moz_extensions/exteditor.html) will get you the external editor plugin for thunderbird. That means you can do like I'm doing now and edit your messsages with vim instead of thunderbird's internal text editor. Or any other editor (emacsclient/gnuclient, etc.) When your "finger memory" is as ingrained as mine is, it's actually kinda useful.
That said, I gotta agree with andrew's basic premise. It's more than a little silly to expect the casual/desktop user to deal with vi and it's better clones. Lots of text editors get the job done. Now I think vi is not a bad editor and I really can't explain why, despite the initial learning curve, it seems to Just Make Sense. You have to deliberately set out to use/learn it to really understand. That might be a good idea for someone who just wants to learn. And any sysadmin/dba, etc that works with unix or linux on a professional basis should consider vi proficiency an important job skill. Emacs is a whole other beast. It's practically an operating system. I used to do nearly everything in Emacs. One still can. It is an enormously extensible environment and at some point I may return to it for all my email and RSS needs. And the emacs keybindings are familiar to anyone who uses bash (and Cisco IOS for that matter!). Just to keep it interesting, another text editor worth exploring is fte (http://fte.sf.net). Lots of advanced features (folding, syntax highlighting, etc.) with an easier-to-learn keymap. It comes in both GUI and console capable flavors. And then there's this (http://cream.sourceforge.net/).... -- Scott Harney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers" gpg key fingerprint=7125 0BD3 8EC4 08D7 321D CEE9 F024 7DA6 0BC7 94E5
