2008/11/14 Matt Wozniski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Jayson wrote: >> >> This may not be news to many of you, but I have found a fairly good >> email solution for vim. It's email.vim. You can find it at >> http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~elentok/files/vim/vim-mail/ It will allow you >> to compose, send and read emails in vim. It consists of a few Python >> scripts that will require you to install Python, and a vim script. >> >From any open vim session, pressing zc (compose mail) will prompt the >> user for the email Subject. Pressing enter will then prompt you for >> the TO address from a customizable address book. After selecting the >> To addresses you are presented with your email body for editing. >> Pressing zs (send) will send the email after confirming your send >> request. There are some very simple setup steps, and it needs a few >> additional features, but all in all, I am very pleased. This email >> was composed and sent using email.vim. I am curious to know if >> anyone else has tried email.vim >> >> Jayson > > If you want to send mail with vim, why not just use Mutt as your mail > viewer? I don't see the point to this, especially since its commands > evidently override existing vim commands (see :help zs and :help zc).
At the risk of talking about stuff I don't know anything about, I can see one possible advantage of this (bearing in mind that I'm quite happy with Firefox+Gmail+ViewSourceWith+GVim). One problem with Mutt is that it's a pain to get working in Cygwin and it's not very transportable. I keep my .vim/vimfiles directory on a USB stick (with the windows version of gvim: all Linux machines I use have it installed) and it works on every computer I use without messing about with installing. If email.vim could be installed in vimfiles and left there without requiring too much else (maybe with some different keyboard mappings), this could be very nice: a portable (as in USB stick portable) vim-edited email program. Of course it sounds like you'd have to get python on there as well... </rambling> Al --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
