Saluton Gene :) Gene Kwiecinski <[email protected]> dixit: >>And BTW, when a top-poster has not been warned I allow a bit of >>tolerance margin just in case he was not aware of the guidelines or >>whatever (hey, everyone can have a bad day, me first). After he has >>been warned, my tolerance level is zero because he cannot plead >>ignorance. > > Someone coming from a business environment, where all those morons > insist on top-posting as their /de facto/ standard (thanks, M$, you > sonsabitches) it may be simply forgetting to "switch modes". Me, I'm > stuck with OutHouse for now, so I have to ^A the entire text, > clipboard it, toss it into 'vim' to reformat it, then clipboard it > back again, so it's a rather tedious but not odious process. Doing so > manually, forget it, I'd prune down to nothing but a [summary] line vs > '>'ing quoted text line by line.
I do the same with GMail (which I'm using now as my de facto mail user agent), although I've automated the process a bit. GMail editor is just an HTML text box and replying a long email with lots of quoted material is almost impossible, so I use a firefox addon that allows me to edit the message using Vim, which does a hell of a lot better job at that. In fact, I think I would spend twice the time replying email if I couldn't use Vim to do it. I'm just used to the couple of functions that allow me to automatically reflow quoted text and a whole lot of things that Vim does for me. This said, without this extension it would be a matter of hitting ^E, Super+Space+"v" to launch Gnome Do and choose Vim, "+p to paste the text and then set the filetype to "mail". After editing and saving, ggVG"+y and ^V in the HTML text box. It may look like a lot of work, but certainly it isn't and with some training you don't even think about it (in fact, it can be even easier using some key mappings in Vim to automate everything). So, you can always use Vim to reply email and that means that you don't have to work a lot to use a decent reply style. I don't spend a lot of time doing so, that's for sure. -- Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
