Hi, I've been using sup exclusively for four months now, and it's working great! I sat down and was watching my email workflow and wanted to know how other sup users work with their email.
A. Reading email in the middle of compose: This is my number one concern. I use vim to write my email, and since sup makes a blocking call, I am unable to read my email while composing. The only way I know how to do this right now is to quit my editor, hit ";" to switch to inbox buffer and read the other emails. I was hoping that this workflow would be refactored into something like this: 1. User hits a key on message he/she wants to reply to. 2. A file is created and a background process is launched (gvim remote, emacs, etc) opening this file. 3. User edits file, maybe creates more replies, and edits each individually. 4. Hitting "y" on a message which user had been composing will pull the latest saved file and load it into compose mode. 5. Hitting "y" again will send it. If you folks have workarounds for this issue, I'd love to hear it. My current hack which I'm trying to fix up is to use the publish hook to quote each message into a temporary file, edit that file, and pull text from that file when sup invokes my editor to reply. B. Contacts: I don't know if this is the appropriate way to do it, but when I want to write a new email to a contact, I hit "C" and search for the name, and "M" again and again till the lazy loading finally finds the name I'm looking for. The system works great, although I wish there was some functionality to search all contacts without loading all of them first. Whenever I need to include a new email address while composing, I need to go back to my contacts list which can be quite cumbersome. I was hoping that Vim's insert mode dictionary completion feature can be used. If all the contacts are available in one file in the name <emailaddress> format, I can simply say: set dictionary += ~/.sup/contacts.txt And instantly gain completion capabilities. Thanks, Anirudh -- Senior Undergraduate Student, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur http://anirudhsanjeev.org The Unix philosophy - Do one thing. Do it well. _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
