Hi, If you reply to all, remove Ryan Harper, as the address doesn't work. Or just reply here. Cheers. 2012/4/23 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>: > I've never been particularly happy with the code of the vim plug-in, > but it sort of did the job, after some fixes, and has been working > great so far for most of my needs even though it's clearly very rough > on the edges. > > However, I'm recently in need of been able to read HTML mails, and > just trying to add that code was a nightmare, so I decided to look for > alternatives, including Anton's Python vim plug-in (which is nice, but > doesn't have support for that), and even learning emacs, to use what > most people here use (but it turns out the HTML messages don't work > correctly there either). I also tried the various mutt+notmuch > options, and none fit the bill. > > So, since I'm a big fan of Ruby, I decided to try my luck writing a > plug-in from scratch. It took me one weekend, but I'm pretty happy > with the result. This plug-in has already essentially all the > functionality of the current one, but it's much, *much* simpler (only > 600) lines of code. > > And in addition has many more features: > > * Gradual searches; you don't have to wait for the whole search to finish, > sort of like the 'less' command > * Proper multi-part handling; finds out if there's text/plain, or if > text/html, converts it using elinks > * Extract all attachments > * Open message with mutt (or any external application that can open an mbox) > * More proper UTF-8 handling > * Configurable key mappings > * Much simpler, cleaner, beautiful, and extensible code (only 600 lines!) > > I just added support to reply mails today, and after trying a bit I > got complaints from the vger.kernel.org server, but people using mutt > have had the same complaint, so I don't know, I wouldn't reply totally > on that. *But* you can open the mail with mutt, or any other client > that you want, as a fall-back option (the command to run is > configurable). > > Sure, it depends on the Ruby bindings from notmuch (but those are easy > to compile), and on the 'mail' library from Ruby (easy to install), > but it makes things much, *much* easier. There might be ways to make > certain dependencies optional, and make this, and the current plug-in > converge somehow (maybe even the python one too), but for now I don't > see any reason to look back. > > I can't wait to start using it for real :) > > Enjoy ;) > > https://github.com/felipec/notmuch-vim-ruby > > P.S. I CC'ed a bunch of people that have showed interest in the vim > interface, I hope you don't mind -- Felipe Contreras