[NTLUG:Discuss] email client and VIM

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 23:03:13 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Kelly Scroggins <kelly at cliffhanger.com>  said:
> Can anyone suggest an email client that uses VIM (vi)?  I know elm uses
> vi but I want something that uses POP, and it would be nice if there was
> a Windows port as well.

For the most part, this is a non-issue.

Most email clients allow you to configure which editor you wish to use.

Indeed, I'd think it preferable to use an email client that is highly
modularized, using:
 - Something like fetchmail to get mail from a POP or IMAP server
 - Something like procmail to direct mail to folders
 - Whatever pager you prefer to use to display messages, whether
   more, less, most, pg, or GNU Emacs
 - Whatever editor you prefer to use to edit messages, whether that
   be vi, vim, GNU Emacs, XEmacs, whatever the EDITOR or VISUAL
   environment variables are set to, or cooledit, or ...
 - Whatever mail transfer agent you have installed, whether that be
   Sendmail, smail, Exim, qmail, Postfix, ...

Elm can work like this; so can Mutt.  I am rather committed to MH, so
I don't explore this much...
--
"I'm sure that nobody here would dream of misusing the Arpanet.
It's as unthinkable as fornication, or smoking pot."  -- RMS
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