mutt/vim compose-new-mail macro
When I am in mutt and I press 'm' to compose a new mail, and I'm then
dropped into my editor (vim), I'd like to have it so that I'll always
be automatically already in vim's insert mode.
Right now, once mutt puts me into vim after I press 'm',
and I am in vim's 'normal mode' ready to compose a new mail,
I can invoke vim's 'O' command (open a new line above the
cursor and put the editor into insert mode) to get exactly
what I want -- insert mode plus the new line.
What I'd like to do is put the 'O' command into a mutt macro,
and I've forgotten how I'd do it.
I already have this:
# Start cursor at line 9 (with edit_hdrs set) when composing new mails ('m'):
macro index m:set editor='vim +9'^M_A compose a new mail message
macro pager m:set editor='vim +9'^M_A compose a new mail message
(Earlier in my .muttrc I bound _A' to (send a) mail, ('m' by default), so
that 'm' could be the key for the macro.)
How do I put vim's 'O' command into a this macro so that it does what
I want?
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Re: mutt/vim compose-new-mail macro
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 06:53:37AM -0400, Russell Hoover wrote:
When I am in mutt and I press 'm' to compose a new mail, and I'm then
dropped into my editor (vim), I'd like to have it so that I'll always
be automatically already in vim's insert mode.
Right now, once mutt puts me into vim after I press 'm',
and I am in vim's 'normal mode' ready to compose a new mail,
I can invoke vim's 'O' command (open a new line above the
cursor and put the editor into insert mode) to get exactly
what I want -- insert mode plus the new line.
What I'd like to do is put the 'O' command into a mutt macro,
and I've forgotten how I'd do it.
I already have this:
# Start cursor at line 9 (with edit_hdrs set) when composing new mails ('m'):
macro index m:set editor='vim +9'^M_A compose a new mail message
macro pager m:set editor='vim +9'^M_A compose a new mail message
(Earlier in my .muttrc I bound _A' to (send a) mail, ('m' by default), so
that 'm' could be the key for the macro.)
How do I put vim's 'O' command into a this macro so that it does what
I want?
From the shell prompt, you could do this:
vim +9 -c normal O -c startinsert
You may want to search for a pattern rather than use a line number in
case the number of header lines ever changes:
vim +/^$ -c normal O -c startinsert
Now the tricky part is quoting this correctly for use in a macro. This
worked when I tried it, without the ^M_A:
macro index m :set editor='vim +9 -c \normal O\ -c startinsert'^M_A compose
a new mail message
HTH,
Gary
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Re: mutt/vim compose-new-mail macro
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