On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 07:41:05AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I've been a vim user for ages and ages. I use both gvim and vim in the > terminal. I've also been a mutt user for ages, but it only recently > occurred to me that I'd love to use a mutt equivalent of gvim. It's even > possible that the vim GUI code could be included in mutt (though I'm not > sure if the license is compatible). > > Is this a feature others would find appealing? Is anyone interested in > taking on development?
I would love some kind of GUI option to mutt, even if only simple xterm mouse support. Btw xterm mouse support has been already there and was discontinued for the switch to slang, maybe it could be added again now that slang is history? As of vim there was also kvim. Both but especially gvim are extremely heavy - I found it ridiculous that a vi clone needs more time and resources than Xemacs;) I do not think it would be possible to take just the GUI of either of those and add it to mutt. My ideal xmutt would be much lighter, my feature list is as * mouse * font support, text drawing directly in X or pango might be much simpler than UTF over curses in xterm * some goodies like sidebars which are too hairy to do with curses Richard --- Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers
