Friday, November 30, 2012

Re: email plugin

On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 15:33 +0000, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> On 11/30/2012 03:28 PM, Reid Thompson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 15:12 +0000, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> >> On 11/30/2012 01:30 PM, Reid Thompson wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 17:07 -0800, Bee wrote:
> >>>> If you are looking for an email client
> >>>> that can use vim as the editor,
> >>>> I am happy with Sylpheed,
> >>>> Simple and fast.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bill
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> you can configure evolution and thunderbird to use gvim as an external
> >>> editor - I'm using gvim with evolution to compose this email.
> >>
> >> Is Thunderbird integration via a plugin as I can see nothing in
> >> Thunderbird 16.0.2 on Linux to suggest it's natively integrated?
>
> > search addons for 'external editor'
>
> On Fedora 17 & TBird 16.0.2, all I get is 'Saved Passwords Editor' &
> 'External Email Alert'.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil...
>

go here http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2
click on the download tab at the top
select external editor
download version 1.0.0
install it using the tbird addons page
restart
go to the addons page and select the preferences button for external
editor
in the field, type
gvim -f
click ok

click write to open an new composer window
click on view/toolbars/customize
drag the external editor button on to the toolbar
click the 'Gvim' button
compose
:wq
CTRL-E



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