On 21/02/09 21:08, James Freer wrote: > Just in case anyone has wanted to use vim for editing emails.I had > wanted to use a text editor to speed up answering emails and > considered Mutt and Emacs. I had used Thunderbird for sometime and > liked the app. A text email client seemed the answer but i wasn't that > impressed by Mutt. > > However, i'm not as knowledgeable as some and setting up Mutt was ok > but still involved quite a bit of work. I got it all working and did > appreciate your help. > > Yesterday i came across a Thunderbird addon Muttador (still beta stage > - vi editor) and today came across a non-mozilla TB addon called > Exteditor... > http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2 > some v.clever person has developed an external editor addon instead of > the TB editor. It allows emacs, vi, joe, gedit or whatever to compose > emails - good deal better than using Mutt. > > Should be of interest to anyone who wants to say goodbye to the mouse > while editing emails. I always liked TB and like it even more... now! > Some may be interested in TBs ImportExportTools for archiving mail - i > don't know what folk do... this is the only email clinet i've found > that does the job. > > james
You might be interested in the "External Editor" extension for Thunderbird http://globs.org/?lng=en which allows you to edit the emails you send with your favourite text editor (such as gvim). Best regards, Tony. -- You have the body of a 19 year old. Please return it before it gets wrinkled. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
