A vim interface for gmail: Vmail

When will we get a "programer's web browser"?<p>I mean a full blown browser of current generation abilities, but with the option of completely keyboard driven interaction. Concise input of small commands (navigation, data extraction, exploring and massaging of extracted data, data uploading etc.) that can be composed to form more complex interactions.<p>It should have full interoperability with the CLI, don't go re-inventing grep, sed etc. but instead stand on their shoulders by interoperating fluently with them. In practice i expect this means the "programer's browser" functions as a full blown terminal emulator too.<p>If it were a text editor (and it should be a competent one of those, but the web is more than a textual medium so some implementations should certainly offer richer functionality than plain text editing) then the net and its many protocols would be its filesystem.<p>It should be extensible, but only by 1 language. Competing programer's browsers could offer alternative extension languages as their differentiator.<p>It should be entirely open for extension, by that i mean more than plugins, i should be able to rip out core parts of it to be replaced with alternative implementations (A's needs won't match B's needs and so on).<p>It shouldn't go too far though, it shouldn't be a full blown operating system: why re-invent the wheel, reuse the thousands of man years effort in existing OS's. It should be multi platform.<p>We almost have the requisite component parts available now, who's going to get the ball rolling with the new wave of "programer's browsers"?

I love it. For decades, my flame war offensives against the evil crusaders of Emacs have stalled out against their Maginot Line of "But Emacs can be your mail client too!" This is like a Blitzkrieg of flame war glory. PARIS PREPARE TO BE MINE!!!

&#62; To save you keystrokes, Vmail provides alternative key mappings for ,* , ,#, and ,!<p>Unfortunately, vmail doesn't seem to consider internationalization important at all. US users save a single press of the shift key when starring messages (,8 instead of ,*), but on a german keyboard, where the star is shift-3 instead of shift-8, the shift-less version of starring trashes the message instead. Not a typo I'm eager to make.<p>Problems like this are, sadly, way too common.

While this is awesome, I am one of those guys who feel uncomfortable to store my raw password in a dotfile, not to mention I'm managing my dotfiles in Github, authentication in every run doesn't seem convenient either. I see that this happens in other places such as Github gists-terminal and some twitter-terminal clients. Is there any way we can store these credentials locally in a safer way like SSH keys?.

for vim fans, another option is mutt or alpine with vim as your editor. Both work with gmail.

Does it have support for two-factor auth? In the event of 2FA/MFA, I'm assuming one needs to generate an application-specific password and keep that in the .rc?<p>Alternatively, I see there are requests for using OAuth, which would be a similar approach to have a "token" that can be revoked.

Same guy as ViTunes. &#60;3 <a href="http://danielchoi.com/software/vitunes.html" rel="nofollow">http://danielchoi.com/software/vitunes.html</a>

I hope you at least felt some pain in your soul when you wrote a vim plugin for email that was gmail only.<p>Why on earth would you do that?

This is pretty awesome. I've used Mutt in the past but always found it a little bit over-the-top. This is very, very simple to setup and does the job pretty well.<p>But better than that... oh my word, the documentation. How I wish every command line app had that kind of documentation. Just one page that documents the shit out of it.<p>There's only one thing that would make it better: if that documentation came bundled with the RubyGem so I could read it offline with `ri`.

This is insane. Amazing, but insane.

Does this mean that vim is now officially finished?

Wow, I love the idea. I have always wanted to manage my mail via terminal, but didn't want to set up Mutt or something similar.

To me, here at work on a Windows machine, that looks like way too many dependencies for me. Looks cool, though.

iawesome!thanks danielESC:wq

&#62;&#62; vmail important from barackobama@whitehouse.gov<p>Mmm...yeah I think I'll pass but hey, good idea up to that point.

It would be great if this had integrated gpg signing and encryption, especially as firegpg doesn't work w/ gmail any more.

Perhaps it is a silly question, but what advantages does this offer over Gmail's rather robust set of keyboard shortcuts?

Why gmail and not email?

cool! plain curiosity: why gmail-only instead of imap?

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Thanks to google killing free Google Apps accounts, I won't get a chance to use this. It's really sad because this is exactly what I was looking for.