add the content of another email to new message
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.
Re: add the content of another email to new message
> From: Cameron Simpson [c...@zip.com.au] > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 10:17 PM > To: Jethro Tull > Cc: mutt-users@mutt.org > Subject: Re: add the content of another email to new message > > On 16Aug2016 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. > > Why not by running a new instance of mutt? > > Without that, you need some kind of tool that _vim_ can invoke to access > message content. How are you intending to designate that message from inside > vim? > > Note that you can reply to more that one message from mutt itself, before you > start composing: tag multiple messages, then (or > or whatever). You'll get all their text quoting in the reply > template. > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson sometimes while composing I could spontaneously need to put all or part of another email or many others. So I could save and close the current composition, then from that point I would need to browse my emails and edit the ones I want to select what I want and dump the selection into the email I was composing before without a copy/paste process which would complicate things if I need the content of many emails. The tricky thing I'm searching about is how to select the right file which corresponds to the email I was composing. I could of course browse the files in my maildir repo from within vim, but it doesn't look like a right way because, first, the files in the maildir repo seem to be named randomly, second, what if my emails were stored in an mbox format? It's a complicated thing because edition is made from within vim and email browing is done with mutt.
Re: add the content of another email to new message
On Wed, 24 Aug, 2016, 14:09:13 +0200, bastian-muttu...@t6l.de wrote: > On 24Aug16 20:38 +1000, c...@zip.com.au wrote: > > On 23Aug2016 19:47, Jethro Tull wrote: > > > > On 16Aug2016 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. > > > > > > > > Why not by running a new instance of mutt? > > > > > > > > Without that, you need some kind of tool that _vim_ can invoke to access > > > > message content. How are you intending to designate that message from > > > > inside > > > > vim? [...] > > Some more thoughts on this: > > - If you figure out the filename of the email, from which you want to > get some lines, then it could be a problem if that file has > content-transfer-encoding = base64 or quopri and not 7bit. Similar > issue might be content-type= text/html. And not to forget encrypted > Mail. anyway, basically hunting files within the maildir repo for such a purpose is not a good idea at all. That's the MUA that has to provide such a facility. > > So, I suggest to use mutt to read/edit email in vim, because mutt > does some stuff to present the mail in a readable way. > > - Another solution to gather lines from other mails might be to use > mutt and vim's registers. Right. > > Steps would be: > 1. Postpone your mail (as described earlier) > 2. Use mutt to find your source mails. In addition, mutt does all >the content type/encoding handling when viewing/replying them. > 3. Use named registers from vim and yank the precious content into >them. This is actually the feature I needed. Postponing is something I knew, but I was wondering how to copy successively parts from several emails without having to paste in between. Without this feature even multiple instances of mutt would have been tedious. > 4. Repeat step 3 as much as needed, either with different ragisters >or append to one register. > 3. Open the postponed mail again and paste our registers. Tadaa .. > > (For that to work, verify that registers are saved after exiting > vim. see :help viminfo.) > > > Cheers, > -- > Bastian
thread colours
mutt version 1.6.1 i'm trying to set mutt to give threads a specific colour. here's my colours configuration for the index pane: # Colours for items in the index # collapsed thread with no New or Flagged color index yellowblack "~v~(!~N)~(!~F)" # collapsed thread with Flagged but no New color index red black "~v~(~F)~(!~N)" # collapsed thread with New color index green black "~v~(~N)" color index brightcyanblack ~N color index magenta black ~O color index brightyellow black ~F color index black green ~T color index brightred black ~D #color index brightred black ~(~U) # colour definitions when on a mono screen mono index bold ~n mono index bold ~f mono index bold ~t mono index bold ~d all colour settings except those related to eithet ~v or ~() are not working. The one related to ~(~U), which is commented is colouring messages with either "O" or "N" flags whether or not they are part of a thread. For all the settings that seem to not work I tested them even individually by commenting all others related to colours.
