[GRLUG] Thunderbird and hjkl

[Steve Romanow]

I was just teasing you.  Muttator is cool.


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:15 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> 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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