[ANN] New awesome vim plug-in using Ruby bindings

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 15:29:09 PDT 2012


2012/4/23 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com>:
> So, since I'm a big fan of Ruby, I decided to try my luck writing a
> plug-in from scratch. It took me one weekend, but I'm pretty happy
> with the result. This plug-in has already essentially all the
> functionality of the current one, but it's much, *much* simpler (only
> 600) lines of code.
>
> And in addition has many more features:
>
>  * Gradual searches; you don't have to wait for the whole search to finish,
>   sort of like the 'less' command
>  * Proper multi-part handling; finds out if there's text/plain, or if
>   text/html, converts it using elinks
>  * Extract all attachments
>  * Open message with mutt (or any external application that can open an mbox)
>  * More proper UTF-8 handling
>  * Configurable key mappings
>  * Much simpler, cleaner, beautiful, and extensible code (only 600 lines!)

In case anybody is interested, here's a screencast showing some of the
features :)
http://youtu.be/JGD7IbZmnIs

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras


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