created by

David Fishburn

script type

utility

description

For Windows users, this plugin will allow you to add a button in Microsoft Outlook which will create a new buffer in Vim with the body of the current email.  The buffer can be edited in: 1.  Any instance of a running Vim. 2.  A specific instance of Vim. 3.  Whether to use a new tab. The filetype of the buffer is automatically set to "mail".  This allows you to use all of Vim's great plugins and editing features to alter the email and customize the buffer using Vim's standard filetype support.  When finished, simply saving the file will automatically update the body of the email in Microsoft Outlook. This has been tested with: Outlook 2003 (WinXP SP3) Outlook 2007 (Windows 7 64bit and 32bit) Outlook 2010 (Windows 7 64bit and 32bit) There are a number of preferences you can set within the plugin to customize it for your use.   These settings can be explored here: :h outlook-configuration :h outlook.txt Installation instructions for Outlook can be found here: :h outlook-macro :h outlook.txt NOTE:  All code is included in these files.  There are no executable files you need to run on your system.   For those interested, the documentation outlines how Vim and Outlook communicate with each other. If your Vim is Unicode enabled (:set encoding? fileencodings?), you will be able to edit emails which contain Unicode characters.  See the help file for more details. Please use the vim_use group to post comments and suggestions.

install details

Unzip outlookvim_vXXX.zip into your $VIM/vimfiles directory.   To update the Vim Help, run: :helptags $VIM/vimfiles/doc  (Windows) The help contains two pieces of important information: :h outlookvim 1.  How to install two buttons in Outlook to launch Vim 2.  How to configure your Vim plugin to your file locations and your preferences.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
outlookvim_v9.zip	9.0	2013-05-13	7.0	David Fishburn	NF: Added new option, g:outlook_always_use_unicode, to override Outlook and force all emails to use utf-16le fileencoding. NF: Added new option, g:outlook_scan_email_body_unicode, to override whether messages will be scanned for unicode characters. NF: Added new option, g:outlook_debug, to turn on messages displayed to both Outlook and Vim. NF: Updated some of the messages displayed to be more informative.                                                                              BF: Editing unicode emails did not reliably work with OutlookVim. BF: Unicode detection was not always correct in the Outlook Basic file. BF: Updated the codepage which Vim expects unicode messages from Outlook to be encoded in (András). BF: Added some additional changes to the VB code to support both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms (Paul).
outlookvim_v8.zip	8.0	2013-02-01	7.0	David Fishburn	New Features ------------ - When preparing to edit an email in Vim, OutlookVim.bas will query the Vim instance checking to see if multibyte support is enabled in Vim.  It does this by checking to see if a bomb is enabled (:set bomb) and the value of fileencodings (:set fileencodings) to see if ucs-bom or any utf strings have been specified.  If multibyte is enabled, then the file created by OutlookVim.bas will be saved in unicode.  If your Vim is not setup to edit unicode files, Outlook will not enable the unicode format.
outlookvim_v7.zip	7.0	2012-10-10	7.0	David Fishburn	NF: Added support for Outlook 2010. NF: Added documentation on how to self sign the Outlook Vim macro so that security settings do not have to change in Outlook to use the macro.  Changing these settings are not possible in some companies.
outlookvim_v6.zip	6.0	2012-02-21	7.0	David Fishburn	Bug Fix ---------- - Changed how the script looks for some system files especially useful if you do not store your vimfiles directory in the $VIM directory (Adam Duck).
outlookvim_v5.zip	5.0	2010-08-14	7.0	David Fishburn	New Features ------------ - Changed how the script looks for some system files especially useful if you do not store your vimfiles directory in the $VIM directory (Adam Duck).
outlookvim_v4.zip	4.0	2010-06-04	7.0	David Fishburn	New Features ------------ - Updated documentation.  Added a troubleshooting section (Zsolt Botykai). - Updated outlookvim.js to display a message if double clicked on to determine if Windows Script Host is correctly installed. - Updated outlookvim.bas (the Outlook VBScript Macro) to show an error if it cannot access the file system.  Modified all the message boxes Outlook may display to indicate "OutlookVim:" is displaying the message. - You can specify whether new emails should be opened in a new tab via the g:outlook_use_tabs configuration option (Zsolt Botykai). After unzipping the contents into your vimfiles directory, copy and paste the outlookvim.bas file into your Outlook macro created earlier (ALT-F11 in Outlook). Also from within Vim run (choose the location where the plugin was installed): :helptags $VIM\vimfiles\doc
outlookvim_v3.zip	3.0	2010-05-10	7.0	David Fishburn	New Features ------------ - You can specify which Vim instance to edit the file by setting a variable in your .vimrc (i.e. let g:outlook_servername = 'OUTLOOK') Bug Fixes --------- - For some (international?) Windows versions, there were errors when (or a failure) editing the file.  Needed to escape the backslashes of the filename.
outlookvim_v2.zip	2.0	2010-05-07	7.0	David Fishburn	This version adds support for Microsoft Outlook 2007 as well as earlier versions. Documentation improvements.
outlookvim_v1.zip	1.0	2010-05-07	7.0	David Fishburn	Initial upload

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