Hi Erik! On Fr, 21 Nov 2014, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 20.11.14 14:09, Will Fiveash wrote: > > If you are using vim you may want to add vim settings specific to > > editing mail from within mutt to a file like > > ~/.vim/ftplugin/mail/mail-settings.vim. vim will assign by default > > the filetype "mail" to mutt editor files and look for plugins in > > ~/.vim/ftplugin/mail. If you do this then you can just set editor=vim > > in your .muttrc. For more see ":help ftplugins" in a running vim > > session. > > That is a good idea. If it seems simpler to just add a line in .vimrc, > on the other hand, then an autocommand can also do such jobs, as in this > one which automates the "[Was: ... ]" editing of a subject line update, > as above: > > au BufNewFile,BufRead ~/Desktop/mutt-* noremap <A-w> > ^[gg/Re:^Mce[Was^[A]^[0Wi I wouldn't use autocommands. Vim does already perfectly recognize mutt mails when you have set :filetype plugin on. So simply place all of your mutt config into a directory ~/.vim/ftplugin/mail/ That is how I do it. For some configuration files look here: http://www.256bit.org/~chrisbra/cms/vim_as_e-mail_editor.html > Again, "^[" is "Control-V Escape", and "^M" is Control-V Enter". > And mutt defaults to composing in /tmp, not ~/Desktop, unless .muttrc > has something like this, to avoid losing the composition on a wipe of > /tmp on reboot: For the sake of readability you should use the normal key notation (:h key-notation) Best, Christian -- Langsam's Laws: (1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes.
