[GRLUG] Thunderbird and hjkl

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:06:14AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> On 03/06/2013 09:04 AM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 03:24:16PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> >>> So, I've taken to using Thunderbird pretty much full-time; I only keep
> >>> my gmail tab open for Google Voice.
> >>>
> >>> One problem I've run into is my habit of using vi-style navigation keys
> >>> to move around...in Thunderbird, the key I habitually hit to move "down"
> >>> instead marks messages as junk--which is something I very much don't
> >>> want to do.
> >>>
> >>> What exists for applying vi-style interfaces on top of Thunderbird?
> >>> (And, no, dropping to a CLI mail client is not an option at this moment)
> >>>
> >> Ahh, .. you'd be far better off actually using a current PC keyboard -
> >> vi/vim is quite happy with <home><end><pgup><pgdn><up><left><right><dn>
> >> <g>! (Unless you're on a Mac, .. never touched one of those, ..
> >>
> >> That way you don't get yourself in trouble using keystrokes from 30 years
> >> ago.
> > 
> > Troll. ;)
> > 
> > I spend so much time in vim often I find myself instinctively pressing j
> > k h l in all kinds of apps, only to discover (remember?) that I'm not in
> > vim. A vim navigation overlay would be incredible across all apps.
> > 
> 
> Wow. I think I just realized the only useful (for me) property of
> Ubuntu's Mir display architecture...

Was it something I said?
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