vim-mail-composer

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I love vim but it is not a email client. To write my email in vim on Windows devices, I created a tiny vimscript code to transfer selected texts to Thunderbird.

Installation

• Paste the code into your vimrc.
• Modify Path-To-Temp-File and Path-To-Thunderbird-Exe as you wish
• I've tested on the following environment
  • Windows 10 (10.0.18363.1082)
  • Thunderbird 78.3.1 (32-bit)
  • NVIM v0.5.0-416-g2b00d1d09 (-acl +iconv +tui)

Usage

Select the text you wrote in visual mode, type ,th, then a composing window of Thunderbird will be appeared. Currently, only Thunderbird is supported.

Format

Mail format is as follows:

Subject: A test mail
Dear John Doe,

...

If subject:XXX line is set on the top of your selected area, the line is set as the subject of your message.

ToDo

• Extract to and cc lines from vim's buffer and fill those fields on the composing window based on the extracted info
• Delete the temporary file after composing finished (currently I tried it but removed before the file passed to a mailer)