[wplug] vi Extension for Thunderbird?
Mike Procario
lists at procario.org
Fri Apr 29 19:22:27 EDT 2005
Joe Gordon wrote:
> Joe Gordon wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> > One of the reasons i finally made the leap (okay, not a big
leap) from the Mozilla Suite to Thunderbird was because i heard there
was an extension to Thunderbird to allow vi editing for composing
email. Now i can't find it! Not on google or mozilla.org. Does
anybody know anything about this?
> >
> > Thank you for your help in advance.
> >
>
> Yes!! i found it. I should have remembered my "Google Hacks." I
finally tried searching for "vim thunderbird" instead of "vi
thunderbird." This led me to http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=851
which lead me to External Editor
(http://globs.chez.tiscali.fr/moz_extensions/exteditor.html) which is a
FANTASTIC Thunderbird plug in. It allows you to use ANY external editor
to compose/reply to your email from Thunderbird. i am using it now.
>
> Sorry for wasting any bandwidth here. i am so used to using to vi
that often i find myself using vi commands and movements in other
programs. This is how i discovered that i can use the "/" key in
Firefox to do a search instead of cntrl+f.
> Thanks to anybody that has comments about this post.
>
> Joe Gordon
>
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Have you gotten it work? I have tried it with gvim and Thunderbird
1.0.2. I installed the extension )v 0.6.0). I told it to use
"/usr/local/bin/gvim --nofork" as the external editor. I get a toolbar
button labeled gvim, but when I try to start it, I get an error message
saying that "/usr/local/bin/gvim --nofork" does not exist.
I added the quotes and the nofork based on the FAQ at the external
editor home page.
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Mike Procario
"Another casualty of applied metaphysics" -Calvin and Hobbes
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