Vim mail client
yhus Hu
Hi,
Is there a vim mail client for linux? I found following one is very good,
it seems for window, and I could not make it work for linux.
http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~elentok/files/vim/vim-mail/
Thank you.
Jim
Tony Mechelynck
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jim
There are many mail clients for Linux, and more than one of them can interface
with Vim. I've heard some people speak very highly of mutt, though myself I
don't use it. I use Thunderbird, which I think has an extension for invoking
an external editor such as vim; but for my needs the built-in composer is
adequate. (When I need outlandish characters such as strange accented or
non-Latin characters, then if they aren't on my Belgian keyboard -- which has
a lot of accents but no non-Latin -- I paste from gvim via the clipboard.)
IIUC, one difference is the many-small-modules approach (fetchmail + mutt +
vim + sendmail) vs. the all-in-one approach (Thunderbird, or, even more so,
SeaMonkey).
Best regards,
Tony.
--
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But get thee to a nunnery -- go!
-- Mark "The Bard" Twain
Suresh Govindachar
following on Windows, when I created it, I did test it on linux:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1052
--Suresh
BartlebyScrivener
> Hi,
>
> Is there a vim mail client for linux?
Sebastian Menge
I switched to alpine ( http://www.washington.edu/alpine ) (successor of
pine) recently. Works well with vim.
Even if OT: has someone pointers to a comparison between mutt and pine?
Pine is great for IMAP, how about mutt ?
Seb.
DervishD
* Sebastian Menge <s.m...@gmx.de> dixit:
I don't use Pine (not opensource from 3.9.2...) although I've tried
it, but I use Mutt and from time to time I use IMAP with it with no
problems. An IMAP mail folder behaves like a local one, so I don't
really feel any difference. And Vim works great with Mutt (I'm using vim
to reply this email ;))).
Haven't tried alpine, either, so I can't tell.
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net
It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen!
BartlebyScrivener
> And Vim works great with Mutt
Indeed, but as Tony warned the OP, it can be confusing at first
getting used to the
many small-modules approach (fetchmail + mutt + vim + sendmail)
vs. the all-in-one approach (Thunderbird, or, even more so,
SeaMonkey).
In my case, getmail + maildrop + mutt + vim + exim4.
Once it gets set up it never breaks and then, as with vim, the more
you learn the faster you go.
rd
fREW
> Pine is great for IMAP, how about mutt ?
I used pine for a long time. Pine is easy to use. It's somehow
related to the nano editor; maybe the relation is just their design.
You can tell when looking at it, it even looks like nano. Mutt is
extremely configurable. You can even have it add your own custom
headers and stuff.
--
-fREW
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Dmitriy Yamkovoy
> related to the nano editor; maybe the relation is just their design.
> You can tell when looking at it, it even looks like nano. Mutt is
> extremely configurable. You can even have it add your own custom
> headers and stuff.
If I understand correctly, the editor pico was based on the editor
built into pine, then nano was based on pico.
-Dmitriy
Tom Purl
> * Sebastian Menge <s.m...@gmx.de> dixit:
>>
>> pine? Pine is great for IMAP, how about mutt ?
>
> problems. An IMAP mail folder behaves like a local one, so I don't
> really feel any difference. And Vim works great with Mutt (I'm using
> vim to reply this email ;))).
I've experienced issues accessing IMAP folders from Mutt, so I use
offlineimap to sync my IMAP folders locally. It's the bset of both
worlds: mutt can access mail locally and I can have one centralized
IMAP mailbox that I can access from multiple e-mail clients.
HTH!
Tom Purl