On 17Aug2016 19:32, Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote:
On 16.08.16 19:58, Jethro Tull wrote:
I'm using vim as editor in mutt. I would like to find a way to dump
the content of another email or part to a new message while being
composed. Of course without running a new instance of mutt.
The most convenient technique for including parts of other/multiple
emails in a new composition varies with use-case. If the text is not to
be quoted, but re-used as original text, then there are several methods:
a) Within vim, use ":r filename" to include the file containing the
desired email, then edit. If there are thousands of emails in the
mailbox, then you're not holding your mouth right, and will have to
delete large slabs of text, but cpu cycles are cheap.
Or just :n to the mailbox file, yank the desired text (eg mark top line "ma",
go to bottom line, yank "y'a"), return to compose file ":n #", paste "p".
b) Within vim: ":w", then ": e filename", then find the text you want,
and yank it, "^" back to the composition, and paste.
Essentially the above I now realise.
c) If desiring to make it a bit more complicated, in a separate instance
of vim, ": e filename", then find the text you want, and highlight it
with the rodent. In the vim instance within mutt, you'll be in insert
mode, and move the cursor into that window, then whack the middle mouse
button.
Shrug. I recently started using vim's multiwindow stuff: open mailbox file in
separate window, yank text, paste in compose window. Might feel easier.
Alternatively, when needing to quote parts of multiple posts for use in
a single reply to them all, it is convenient to tag them, perform a ';'
reply, then edit each of the quotes in vim within mutt, replying in-line
to the parts retained.
That'd be my preferred route if I knew all the relevant messages ahead of time.
The OP might be discovering a desire to cite later.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
