I figured it out. I needed to set Gmail to plain text. Kevin On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Kevin Dillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/ 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. >> >> >> > >
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