[GRLUG] Thunderbird and hjkl

[Steve Romanow]

vimperator is the firefox plugin from the same author


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:22 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> 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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