On 11/30/2012 04:01 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: > On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 15:33 +0000, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> On 11/30/2012 03:28 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 15:12 +0000, Phil Dobbin wrote: >>>> On 11/30/2012 01:30 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 17:07 -0800, Bee wrote: >>>>>> If you are looking for an email client >>>>>> that can use vim as the editor, >>>>>> I am happy with Sylpheed, >>>>>> Simple and fast. >>>>>> >>>>>> Bill >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> you can configure evolution and thunderbird to use gvim as an external >>>>> editor - I'm using gvim with evolution to compose this email. >>>> >>>> Is Thunderbird integration via a plugin as I can see nothing in >>>> Thunderbird 16.0.2 on Linux to suggest it's natively integrated? >> >>> search addons for 'external editor' >> >> On Fedora 17 & TBird 16.0.2, all I get is 'Saved Passwords Editor' & >> 'External Email Alert'. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Phil... >> > > go here http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2 > click on the download tab at the top > select external editor > download version 1.0.0 > install it using the tbird addons page > restart > go to the addons page and select the preferences button for external > editor > in the field, type > gvim -f > click ok > > click write to open an new composer window > click on view/toolbars/customize > drag the external editor button on to the toolbar > click the 'Gvim' button > compose > :wq > CTRL-E
Excellent. Thanks very much. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal
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