[GRLUG] Thunderbird and hjkl

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:16:49AM -0500, Steve Romanow wrote:

> 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?
> >
> I was just teasing you.  Muttator is cool.

I meant that for Mike. I'm wondering what the useful property of Mir is.

Muttator is cool. It'd be really cool to be able to navigate my entire
DE with vim commands for scrolling, paging, etc. I use e17 in part
because it, though being a gui, is quite easy to use with the keyboard.
-- 
john-thomas
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