[GRLUG] Thunderbird and hjkl

[Josh]

You should get a Mac and learn emacs.  Most emac commands work in most Mac applications like kill and yank. 

Hopefully we get a third person with another idea and we can be a trio of trolls

On Mar 6, 2013, at 6:04 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> 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.
> -- 
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