[Discuss] mozex: editing with your favorite editor

[Daniel M German]

 Adam> Steven Kurylo wrote:
 >> With it I can use vi to compose emails in thunderbird.

 Adam> I'm a Vi/Vim lover myself, but even I can't understand why you'd want
 Adam> to compose e-mails in Vi/Vim.  The reason I use Vim is things like
 Adam> syntax highlighting, code folding, splitting windows, etc, none of
 Adam> which would be useful when writing an e-mail.

I'll jump in.

I think it depends on how you approach editing text. If you are only
typing a paragraph straight, sure, it might not help.

But you _edit_ a message: you might cut and paste, reorganize text,
reformat, indent, insert info from different sources, move around the
message. 

Say you want to insert the output from a program, or insert a file
into the message. 

And you can automize!


And you don't have to learn several modes for editing: just one. It is
not about keystrokes. It is about the editing paradigm

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