X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=notmuch-wiki;a=blobdiff_plain;f=vimtips.mdwn;h=faa725b1b1e367628dbd3388719a7576afac441d;hp=b531a77822b60ee0f9fbee97c149f7a858eff757;hb=20f029ccd9d29a7cd9b7414488f9c278fba8eb30;hpb=61ba599cb7e5319b5988955788bcdce2c3ee7a56 diff --git a/vimtips.mdwn b/vimtips.mdwn index b531a77..faa725b 100644 --- a/vimtips.mdwn +++ b/vimtips.mdwn @@ -1,14 +1,9 @@ [[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]] +# Tips and Tricks for using Notmuch with vim -Notmuch is a great mail indexing tool that can also be used *in conjunction* -with existing Mail User Agents (MUA) instead of replacing them. The advantage of -such mixed solutions is that users can benefit from notmuch features (such as -full-text search and thread reconstruction) without *having to* change MUA. - -A popular geek MUA is [the Mutt e-mail client](http://www.mutt.org); integrating -notmuch with Mutt is not seamless, but fairly straightforward. There are two -principal possibilities, either using a patched mutt that handles internally -notmuch, or use a sets of scripts/handler within mutt to achieve something close. +Tips for using Notmuch with vim; these may be applicable when using vim with +[[notmuch-mutt]], [mutt-kz](https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz), or +[notmuch-vim](http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/blob/HEAD:/vim/README). [[!toc levels=2]] @@ -20,7 +15,7 @@ explains how to configure emacs with an addressbook, but the few solutions were for me. And I never could test the vala-based code. So I updated the notmuch_addresses code to use a cache to be able to make better matches and still be lightning fast. -And finally, [I needed](http://i.got.nothing.to/blog/2013/03/20/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-mail/) to have a way to autocomplete my recipients' addresses +And finally, [I needed](http://i.got.nothing.to/blog/2013/03/20/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-mail/) to have a way to autocomplete my recipients' addresses automagically from within `vim`. So that's why I created the [notmuch_abook](https://github.com/guyzmo/notmuch-abook) code. You can either install it as a plugin in vim, using vundle: @@ -33,8 +28,8 @@ want to use it as standalone: To configure the address book, append to `~/.notmuch-config` the following: - % cat > ~/.notmuch-config << EOF - + % cat >> ~/.notmuch-config << EOF + [addressbook] path=/home/YOURUSERNAME/.notmuch-abook.db backend=sqlite3 @@ -60,4 +55,3 @@ of each word in the name and address, as follows: If you're using vim, when you edit a mail having a filetype set to mail, you will be able to open a completion menu when you do at every address header. -