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Can I somehow use gvim to compose my email messages in Thunderbird?

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None of the solutions is ok? – enzotib Jun 26 '11 at 17:44

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At this web site you can find a non official thunderbird extension to use an external editor of your choice:

http://globs.org/download.php?lng=en

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I think you should use this tutorial to solve your problem.

Link Here: http://blog.geekq.net/2010/05/13/vim-external-editor-thunderbird-3-ubuntu/

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that tutorial assumes that vim is being used as the external editor, not gvim (which the asker wants to use). Would this still work fine, or what changes would be necessary? – WarriorIng64 Jun 26 '11 at 4:53
Here on my computer, no changes were necessary. :D – vhbsouza Jun 28 '11 at 2:07
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Try Teledactyl. You can do much more vim-oriented things with it but if you're only interested in editing files in vim, it also works, just disable all of it and keep the external editor feature on.

This is what I had (use GMail interface now) in my .teledactylrc file:

:set editor='gvim -S .vimrcforvimperator -f'

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