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Re: mutt + mailings list ( + vim)



On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:30:48AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
>
> On 21-Apr-08, at 7:04 PM, hh.eu@gmx.de wrote:
>
>> Am 21.04.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Alex Samad:
>>> so whilst viewing an email, I press shift-l, this starts vim with the
>>> emails, I then use up and down arrows and v to highlight some text, I
>>> would then like to press <some key combo> and have the text replaced 
>>> by
>>> <cr>[snip]<cr>
> [snippage]
>> map <C-S-F1> d<Esc>i<CR>[snip]<CR><Esc>
> [snippage]
>> You make a selection in vim, i.e. press Shift+v, then go down a few
>> lines, and then press the shortcut, which will delete the selection  
>> (d),
>> go into insert mode (i) and put in your text and then leave insert  
>> mode
>> again (<Esc>).
> [snippage]
>> You'll have to play around a bit to see how you want things when you
>> don't select full lines.
>
> Wouldn't 'c' be better than 'd<Esc>i' ?



For some reason <C-S-F1> did not register on so I tried it with ^[[23^
(got this from the manual, I type ctrl-V and then the keycombo)

>
> Brian
>



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