From: Felipe Contreras Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:05:04 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Re: [ANN] New awesome vim plug-in using Ruby bindings X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=41d6a711403d3cb175a8cb8a13e1841cc0afe812;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: [ANN] New awesome vim plug-in using Ruby bindings --- diff --git a/62/11a04405513c63fbcb781d9f610b66004a1f42 b/62/11a04405513c63fbcb781d9f610b66004a1f42 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6ad37ea4f --- /dev/null +++ b/62/11a04405513c63fbcb781d9f610b66004a1f42 @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2755B431FAF + for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:05:07 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -0.799 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.799 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, + FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id RXJ7IxXW5Fro for ; + Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:05:06 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com + [209.85.215.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31475431FAE + for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:05:06 -0700 (PDT) +Received: by eaa1 with SMTP id 1so4833023eaa.26 + for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:05:04 -0700 (PDT) +DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; + h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to + :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; + bh=+ArjKVup8hOEjCCuqVjT59UpFiDXY9a4MosUqldUNYo=; + b=NIb30Bz6UlpCbFPaT+rsQi6cCCMeRveKZrebTIHm0VhzVcBMKYfmHpylCyBrIFOeTM + GPgqbLYIawhgLsXCQH3uG2qL+EhCA0yqWL1JaMKt0InAm+fdWT/EhZrnLp+Qr8MidvYL + ipzsS3zUDJc5NRzH0SFiDgrh/vfhjt4nJRMa58AR14gpqz4n7tPZWvNfbe5S6GYL+QOT + crg3AxDZR3CB0ixIEdRe9RkRlQvpu8db/gNsmgJaodI4Y6JIqSRBEWrYcQHibmlG54Yf + ZC/ngHoppqd0nHDOZtH815BmmDv6vruzaSKLtob+J+d+Xb6Gkhx5qXmmdDk/3gaPyCGO + HyuQ== +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Received: by 10.213.9.209 with SMTP id m17mr1242787ebm.19.1335182704670; Mon, + 23 Apr 2012 05:05:04 -0700 (PDT) +Received: by 10.213.103.18 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:05:04 -0700 (PDT) +In-Reply-To: + +References: + +Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:05:04 +0300 +Message-ID: + +Subject: Re: [ANN] New awesome vim plug-in using Ruby bindings +From: Felipe Contreras +To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 +Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable +Cc: Ali Polatel , Bart Trojanowski , + Adrian Perez +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:05:07 -0000 + +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 : +> 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: +> +> =C2=A0* Gradual searches; you don't have to wait for the whole search to = +finish, +> =C2=A0 sort of like the 'less' command +> =C2=A0* Proper multi-part handling; finds out if there's text/plain, or i= +f +> =C2=A0 text/html, converts it using elinks +> =C2=A0* Extract all attachments +> =C2=A0* Open message with mutt (or any external application that can open= + an mbox) +> =C2=A0* More proper UTF-8 handling +> =C2=A0* Configurable key mappings +> =C2=A0* Much simpler, cleaner, beautiful, and extensible code (only 600 l= +ines!) +> +> 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 + +--=20 +Felipe Contreras