fREW wrote:
On 5/12/07, Troy Piggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Timothy Knox is quoted & my replies are inline below :
I use vim to write my outgoing email, and for the most part, it
rocks. Thanks to all the folks who have written modules and
provided tips that make it the best thing for writing email
since mailx <grin>.
What tips/scripts are you using and what are your favourites?
Yeah, I am interested as well. What do you use to do all of this?
I use the non-Vim-friendly Apple Mail for my e-mail, but I use pan
and Vim for Usenet; here is the function that's called whenever I set
filetype=usenet:
" :: set us up for usenet-article editing
function! UsenetSetup()
setl textwidth=75 " wrap at 75 columns
setl comments=n:>,n:\|,n:% " recognize [>|%] as quote
indicators
setl formatoptions=qn " allow formatting with 'gq';
recognize lists (q.v.)
" the unholy mess on the next line recognizes lists with "1.",
"-", and "*" as bullets,
setl flp=^\\(\\d\\+[.\\t\ ]\\\|[-*•]\ \\\|\ \ \\)\\s* " and
also recognizes two-space blockquoting
setl expandtab " use spaces instead of tabs
(eugh)
nmap <Leader>s :call InsertSpoilerSpace()<CR>
nmap <Leader>f :call FormatUsenetParagraph()<CR>
" insert a randomly-chosen signature and turn on spell checking
nmap <Leader>g :r !~/.vim/usenet/sig.pl ~/.vim/usenet/
sigs<CR>:setl spell<CR>
setl encoding=utf-8
setl fileencoding=utf-8
endfunction
function! FormatUsenetParagraph()
sil '{,'}s/\%(^[|>% \t]*\)\@<=\([|>%]\)\s*/\1 /ge
normal gqip
endfunction
The second function does a beautiful job of reflowing paragraphs to
take up the entire textwidth; it was devised by Peppe on
comp.editors. (If anyone has questions about how any of this works,
please ask!)
HTH,
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Benjamin D. Esham
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