Re: OT: outlook reply to sanity converter for vim
Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:00:24PM -0600, Mike Brownlow (mike@wsmake.org) wrote:
> > I'm feeling random, so I thought I'd share this fun thing I added for
> > messages that are outlook user replies.
>
> Hmmm....
>
> I'm playing with it. Pretty cool start. Not sure it's quite prime-time
> yet....
Yeah, I only spent enough time on it to make a point at work recently.
But I'm starting to find it very useful now that finals are over and I'm
back at work more, where nearly everybody uses outlook. bleahk. I have
puke yellow to show up in my index for outlook messages, it gets nasty.
> > It works semi-reliably on them after hitting reply in mutt.
>
> ...not with default reply-to settings, as this tool wants headers, and
> they're not there by default. So you've got to do a reply, save the
> message, then 'E' to edit with headers.
Unless edit_headers is set in the configuration. Then they are there by
default on reply. But you are right, it would be good for the script to
be independent of that.
> > There's plenty of room for improvement, but it works pretty nicely as
> > a way to free my frustration after seeing outlook replies.
>
> Agreed there.
>
> > Even when it doesn't work. :)
>
> ...unfortunately, somewhat often.
I haven't had it fail that often...but I imagine there would be quite a
few Outlook features I haven't run into yet.
> > Note, it currently only works on one outlook reply at a time.
>
> I'm noticing this. One list I monitor has a _bunch_ of LookOut Lusers,
> with a *really* bad habit of quoting several days worth of archives in
> their posts (well, 3-5 generations of reply, in full, at any rate).
>
> Any chance this could be generalized to loop through multiple replies
> and modify accordingly? I'm a pretty minimally skilled Perl hacker
> myself....
Sure. In fact, I was ultimately planning to do that when I got the time.
Also, it would try to detect discontinuous emails in general and attempt
to fix them.
I would also like to change it so that it fixes the message before mutt
adds a generation. I tried playing around with message-hook, but
couldn't find a way to get this to work nicely. Something like:
message-hook '~h "^X-Mailer: Microsoft"' "exec pipe-message fixit.pl"
Of course I don't think I'm using those commands appropriately. :)
message-hook's input/output is independent of that command afaics.
message-hook doesn't have input/output i think. It only changes
settings.
> > So use it regularly. ;) It changes the "-- Original Message --"
> > nonsense and some other things.
>
> Delimiting what it changes would be a good step. Seems to:
>
> 1. Fix attributions.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <sender>
> Sent: <date>
> To: <recipient>
> Subject: <subject>
>
> ...is changed to:
>
> On <date>, <sender> wrote, as it should be.
>
> I'm noting that a "From:" line that wraps isn't properly handled,
> e.g.:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-pho@onehouse.com [mailto:owner-pho@onehouse.com] On Behalf
> > Of Brad Hill
> > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 1:56 PM
> > To: Jeff Coleman; pho@onehouse.com
> > Subject: Re: pho: Wired: Will draw for food
Oops. Hadn't run into that yet. :)
> 2. Reply is moved *below* quoted material.
>
> 3. Quoting is fixed -- the broken prefix format of MS Outlook (the
> security hole that happens to be an email client) is
> rectified...for the first generation of quoting.
Such a relief, isn't it? :) When it works...
> > Be sure to customize it to your liking.
> >
> > Note...the headers for the message being edited are preferred to be in
> > vim for this to work.
>
> This should be made optional.
Yep.
> > Add in vimrc:
> > map <f1> vG$!ol2sanity.pl<cr>
> >
> > Choose a different key if you want. Note that it assumes you are at the
> > top of the file.
>
> <f1> is already mapped to "help" in vim. I'd suggest a different key.
>
> "1,$ ! ol2sanity.pl<cr>" would be a better mapping to cover all
> contingencies. This will run over the full buffer regardless of pointer
> position.
Ahh, cool. But it needs a colon in front right?
map <f2> :1,$ ! ol2sanity.pl<cr>
I'll put some real effort into the script it if people are interested.
--
Mike Brownlow ><> http://www.wsmake.org/~mike/
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