I have been playing around with using vim w/Gmail. How do you associate the view source with vim? I use It's all Text, but the area for the body of the message doesn't show the edit button. TIA, Kevin
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Joseph Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:03:31PM +0000, A. S. Budden wrote: > > > > 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/<http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/%7Eelentok/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 > > Sounds fun, but after the amount of dwindling brain power I have > dedicated to Mutt it's not for me. Sounds a LOT easier to set up than > Mutt though. Second on the different keys though, zc is closing my > folds. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
