Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-30 Thread Axel Bender
Not working here (Windows 2003, Thunderbird 7.0, exteditor 1.0). Same error in JS Console. This seems to be an error in the plugin; even when using notepad as the text editor, it would not get called (verified with procmon). = Faulty plugin; nothing to do with GVim. This returns us to the

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-30 Thread Calon
Tried on Windows, got the same error message when press Ctrl+E. Then drag External Editor icon to the toolbar, and click the new icon, it just works fine. On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Fernando Basso fernandobasso...@gmail.comwrote: On Sep 29, 9:46 am, Reid Thompson reid.thomp...@ateb.com

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-30 Thread Axel Bender
Thanks for your input, Calon. This in fact does the trick (still an error in the plugin); I would never have tried this myself... Have a nice weekend -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-30 Thread Fernando Basso
On Sep 30, 5:43 am, Calon calon...@gmail.com wrote: Tried on Windows, got the same error message when press Ctrl+E. Then drag External Editor icon to the toolbar, and click the new icon, it just works fine. Since I didn't see any Installation instructions in the page, I assumed I'd just

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-29 Thread Reid Thompson
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 04:55 -0700, Fernando Basso wrote: I'm running linux (arch linux). I tried with you may have already tried this and or it may not help, but ... try running thunderbird from the command line and attempt to use the external editor and see if there are any valid error

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-29 Thread Fernando Basso
On Sep 29, 9:46 am, Reid Thompson reid.thomp...@ateb.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 04:55 -0700, Fernando Basso wrote: I'm running linux (arch linux). I tried with you may have already tried this and or it may not help, but ... try running thunderbird from the command line and attempt

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-29 Thread Eric Weir
On Sep 28, 2011, at 7:18 AM, Fernando Basso wrote: I simply cannot stand any other editor anymore. There is no life after vim. Do you know about this? http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor Or this? [Only for gmail, though. http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html

Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-28 Thread Fernando Basso
I really want to find a way to use vim as my default email editor. I have been using thunderbird for a reasonable amount of time now, and I stumbled through this external editor thunderbird plubin. However, it seems not to be working with recent versions of thunderbird. So, I was pondering, well,

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-28 Thread Quincy Bowers
I am using External Editor with Thunderbird 6.02 and everything is working just fine. I would check to see if you have the latest updates for the plugin. -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-28 Thread Fernando Basso
On Sep 28, 9:45 am, Quincy Bowers qui...@quakbo.com wrote: I am using External Editor with Thunderbird 6.02 and everything is working just fine.  I would check to see if you have the latest updates for the plugin. I got the plugin from here: http://globs.org/download.php?lng=en I

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-28 Thread Quincy Bowers
Make sure you setup External Editor to call 'gvim --nofork' or it won't work properly. Other than that I can't imagine what would be wrong. Quincy On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 07:42, Fernando Basso fernandobasso...@gmail.comwrote: On Sep 28, 9:45 am, Quincy Bowers qui...@quakbo.com wrote: I am

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-28 Thread David Ohlemacher
Have you seen these? - http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/teledactyl - http://vimperator.org/muttator -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-28 Thread Quincy Bowers
I have not used either of those before. On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 08:32, David Ohlemacher dohlemac...@scisol.comwrote: ** Have you seen these? - http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/teledactyl - http://vimperator.org/muttator -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-28 Thread Fernando Basso
On Sep 28, 10:58 am, Quincy Bowers qui...@quakbo.com wrote: Make sure you setup External Editor to call 'gvim --nofork' or it won't work properly.  Other than that I can't imagine what would be wrong. It still doesn't work. Even using gvim --nofork. -- You received this message from the

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-28 Thread Fernando Basso
On Sep 28, 11:32 am, David Ohlemacher dohlemac...@scisol.com wrote: Have you seen these? -http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/teledactyl -http://vimperator.org/muttator They seem fine, although I'd prefer to edit in 'real' vim. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. I was aware of vimperator, but not

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-28 Thread Marcin Szamotulski
On 04:18 Wed 28 Sep , Fernando Basso wrote: I really want to find a way to use vim as my default email editor. I have been using thunderbird for a reasonable amount of time now, and I stumbled through this external editor thunderbird plubin. However, it seems not to be working with recent

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-28 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:18 PM, Marcin Szamotulski msza...@gmail.com wrote: from: Marcin Szamotulski msza...@gmail.com date: Wed, Sep 28 05:18 PM +01:00 2011 to: vim_use@googlegroups.com reply-to: vim_use@googlegroups.com subject: Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor On 04:18

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-28 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 28/09/11 17:50, Fernando Basso wrote: On Sep 28, 10:58 am, Quincy Bowersqui...@quakbo.com wrote: Make sure you setup External Editor to call 'gvim --nofork' or it won't work properly. Other than that I can't imagine what would be wrong. It still doesn't work. Even using gvim --nofork.

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-28 Thread Fernando Basso
On Sep 28, 3:27 pm, Tony Mechelynck antoine.mechely...@gmail.com wrote: Try setting your External Editor preferences to call gvim with not only --nofork (or -f) but also a full path, i.e., not just         gvim --nofork but something like         /usr/local/bin/gvim -f or        

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

2011-09-28 Thread Reid Thompson
On 9/28/2011 7:18 AM, Fernando Basso wrote: I really want to find a way to use vim as my default email editor. I have been using thunderbird for a reasonable amount of time now, and I stumbled through this external editor thunderbird plubin. However, it seems not to be working with recent