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[[!meta title="The power of vim: mail editing"]]
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In this article I will show you some of the mappings I use within
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vim for mail editing.
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## Background
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I am a console centric person, using
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[mutt](http://www.mutt.org/) and
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[vim](http://www.vim.org/) for mails.
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I use one e-mail address per person or situation
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(i.e. you can reach me at nico-thepowerofvim at schottelius.org).
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to be able to filter or delete e-mail addresses easily.
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## Macros / Mappings
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One of the really nice things of vim is being able to use macros
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([map](http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_05.html#05.3) in
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vim slang).
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### Replace Mail Address (static)
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Many times I would like to replace the mail address mutt selected
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for sending with my company address. For this I use a mapping assigned to F2:
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map <F2> G$/^From:<CR>/<<CR>lc/><CR>nico.schottelius --AT-- ungleich.ch<ESC>/^$<CR>
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This essentially finds the first From: line, removes everything betwenn < and > and inserts my company mail address.
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### Replace Mail Address (dynamic)
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In most cases however, I use a mail address in the style
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**nico-something@schottelius.org** (there is no catch all, if you were thinking about this). I have mutt setup to use
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**nico-something@schottelius.org** as the from address and have a
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macro mapped to F3 that allows me to replace the part after
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**nico-** until the **@** easily:
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<F3> G$/^From:<CR>/<nico-<CR>wwlc/@<CR>
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### Replace everything until the signature
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Quite often I am done with replying to an email, but have
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leftovers from the original mail. To be able to delete everything
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easily until the end of the mail (i.e. until -- and a space),
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I use F4:
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map <F4> c/^-- <CR>
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[[!tag net unix]]
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