[wplug] Email clients, mailing lists and spellcheck
Jonathan S. Billings
billings at negate.org
Thu Jun 15 08:55:56 EDT 2006
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 07:58 -0400, Jason Carr wrote:
> I use Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows, Evolution on Linux boxes with
> spell checking built in. I don't like Evolutions spell check as much as
> Thunderbird's since you have to right click on the word that is
> underlined, then click "check spelling" or some such nonsense.
> Thunderbird you can just right click on the misspelled word and it gives
> you a few suggestions and you can just click the correct one.
I agree with your opinion about Evolution's spell checking. If it's
going to have in-line spellchecking, I really wish it'd bring up a
contextual menu with the top replacements. If only Thunderbird had
virtual mailboxes, I'd probably just use it instead of Evolution.
> I also
> use Mutt when I don't feel like having a full blown GUI client running,
> I use vim as my text editor for mail, and I don't do any spell checking.
> I believe that vim 7 has spell checking built in or something, but my
> distro hasn't released vim 7 yet.
Does vim have a word-wrap mode? One of the reasons I stick with running
emacs is because I'm most familiar with the keybindings, but it also has
a pretty good set of modes for writing email.
If anyone is curious, I have this in my .emacs:
;;;;;;; Mode for editing email in mutt ;;;;;;;
(setq auto-mode-alist (append (list
(cons "^\/tmp\.mutt" 'mail-mode)
)
auto-mode-alist))
;;;; I assume that all mutt tempfiles will be in /tmp
(defun my-mail-mode-hook ()
(auto-fill-mode t)
(flyspell-mode t)
)
(add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'my-mail-mode-hook)
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
--
Jonathan Billings
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