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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