I personally use Textmate for any messages over a couple of lines. The inconvenience of visiting another app to compose the message is outweighed by the power of all the snippets and macros I have defined in Textmate, and I can additionally save drafts and copies to a more- reliable-than-Mail.app text file if I need to.
My dream is one day that textmate can handle reading mbox or maildir files. I could collect, filter and deliver messages to a local folder structure with fetchmail, procmail and bogofilter and then set up a project in Textmate to view that folder structure and read, move and manage my mail. I love Mutt but I get frustrated not being able to navigate with the mouse and always end up back using Mail.app. A setup like the one described would be heaven for me!
One day I may have a go at pulling it all together into a bundle to play with it...
Nigel
On 7 Jan 2009, at 14:55, Steve King wrote:
David Frascone wrote:
Do you actually find it easier to compose mail in textmate? For me, I've replaced all of my programmers' editors with textmate -- and I've even gone so far as to set my EDITOR variable.
But e-mail? Is it worth the effort?
For me, the answer is "sometimes". I use Thunderbird for mail, and in general I am in favor of HTML in mail messages. T-bird's HTML isn't great, though, and it gets worse and worse as the quote level deepens and includes HTML from even worse WYSIWYG editors (Outlook, I'm talking to you!) I sometimes like to pop over to TextMate to clean up the HTML myself.
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