Re: email plugin

On 29.11.12 18:48, ping wrote:
> like most open-source projects, very nice idea plus great
> apps, but never good docs/tuturials..(except vim)

The mutt documentation is available on the <F1> key, and is very
detailed and informative. The capabilities of mutt are significant, so
acquiring not just knowledge, but understanding, involves effort. That
is commonly the price paid for FOSS. The mutt-users mailing list is a
good place to ask why what you have tried is not working as expected.

> I wanted to start a project to move to mutt after I enjoyed the power
> of vim. but after hesitate of hesitate I still is hesitating.

Buy something from M$, then?

> initially you want to save your time by using some fancy tools, then
> you have to spend the rest of your life to learn (mostly guess, test,
> error and retry, little by little) that tiny little thing , just in
> order to "save your time". Sometime I'm thinking whether this worth
> or not...
> as of vim, my enthusiasm was mostly "retained" because of the
> enthusiasm of peoples (like you guys here) who is always willing to
> share/help...

The more you learn, over the decades, the harder it is to retain it all¹.
My personal software survival notes now amount to several hundred pages.
They avoid the need to learn stuff several times over - the effort of
doing it once is enough.

It is worth remembering that little understanding is needed in order to
get started, and all the handy customisations can be configured over
years, as the need becomes evident, and a method is learnt. (The '?'
command help is also useful in the beginning)

Put these lines in your ~/.muttrc

set editor=vim
set tilde # Show End of Text, like in vim.

Now vim is a "plug-in" for mutt, and you have leveraged your vim
knowledge.

Erik

¹ Soft errors in the aging wetware RAM don't help either.

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you look it up, you can eventually reaffirm what you thought you knew
but weren't sure. But if you're searching for something you don't
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