Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:18 PM, Marcin Szamotulski <mszamot@gmail.com> wrote:

> from: Marcin Szamotulski <mszamot@gmail.com>
> date: Wed, Sep 28 05:18 PM +01:00 2011
> to: vim_use@googlegroups.com
> reply-to: vim_use@googlegroups.com
> subject: Re: Vim as default email (thunderbird) editor
>
> On 04:18 Wed 28 Sep , Fernando Basso wrote:
>> I really want to find a way to use vim as my default email editor. I
>> have been using thunderbird for a reasonable amount of time now, and I
>> stumbled through this "external editor" thunderbird plubin. However,
>> it seems not to be working with recent versions of thunderbird.
>>
>> So, I was pondering, "well, many vim users certainly use vim to write
>> emails." If so, do you have any tips regarding this subject. What I
>> have done so far is to write the email in vim, and then paste the
>> message back into the email client. There must be a better, clever, or
>> nicer way of doing this.
>>
>> I simply cannot stand any other editor anymore. There is no life after
>> vim.
>>
>> Any thoughts and ideas are welcome.
>>
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> It should be noted that it is fairly easy to configure mutt to use vim as an
> external editor, this is a line of my muttrc file:
> set editor='vim +set\ spell\ spelllang=pl,pt,en_gb'
>
> Best,
> Marcin
>
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Hi Fernando

How about trying vmail? Emails from within Vim. The link is:

https://rubygems.org/gems/vmail

I use it everyday and it's really good.

Cheers

G

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