[Vimperator] How about a VimBird?

[Giorgio Lando]

Some replies from a mutt's lover.

> 1. you can't have multiple email-window's open on mutt. you have
>    to leave and postpone the message and open a new one (or open
>    multiple mutt instances). With thunderbird you can have
>    probably as many seperate window's (for each single email) as
>    you wish. (e.g. you want to copy/paste text from one to another
>    etc)

But running multiple mutt instances is probably less resource intensive and
faster than running a single thunderbird instance.

> 2. the incremential searching (you type strings, and 'on-time' you
>    get a list of matches - you don't have in mutt.

Yes. In this sense a vim-style mutt would be fine, but I really think
that email should work in a terminal, it does not need graphics.
 
> 3. mutt opens large mailboxes very slow,
>    despite caching etc.

Yes, sadly you are right.
 
> 4. the way how to open links, it not really to his liking. (Ctrl-B
>    etc)

Right. However, I think that links should not be managed by
the mail reader but from the terminal emulator where mutt runs. And this
can work absolutely fine: e.g., the link catcher perl extension of
rxvt-unicode manages urls wonderfully. 
 
> 5. thunderbird etc, can store all mail-addresses you write To:, into the
>    address-book automatically.

Oh yes. The best would be not the address-book, but some form of address
autocompletion, as in gmail web-interface. I have seen around a patch
for mutt which does this, but I do not find it right now.

Finally, the main strength of mutt from the point of view of a vim lover is that
mutt lets you use vim as an editor! I do not think that this can be done
in thunderbird: obviously vimbird could include a vim-like mail editor,
but it would be a great waste of efforts (vim is already there).

Regards
Giorgio Lando
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