[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
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