Hi, 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