[neomutt-users] automatically insert text in messages

[Sam Kuper]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 08:04:21PM -0800, Steve Quezadas wrote:
> do any of you guys use vim with neomutt? I do customer support
> sometimes and it's useful to sometimes insert standard letters to
> common questions.
> 
> Are there any tools to automatically do this? I realize this more of a
> vim question, but I figure more people would encounter this problem
> with mutt.

Vim is easily capable of this.

Suppose you want to be able to (while in Vim in normal mode) hit your
leader key followed by "aa", to insert "Thank you for using Acme Corp!"
Stick this in your vimrc:

    :nnoremap <Leader>aa Thank you for using Acme Corp!<esc>

For more cunning stunts, I would recommend
https://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/

Sam

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