📫 vim-himalaya-ui

Simple Vim UI for Himalaya CLI

Tested on Linux and Neovim.

Features:

• Navigate through multiple accounts and it's folders and emails

Disclaimer

The idea is to have a similar interface to vim-dadbod-ui, but for email. Which is why I decided to fork it and modify it to the needs of himalaya. This is a work in progress and it's not ready for use. Pull requests are extremely welcome.

This is my first vim plugin, so I'm learning as I go.

Installation

Install and configure Himalaya CLI first. This is not yet done via the UI (see the Roadmap). Then install this plugin using your favorite plugin manager:

Using packer

use "https://github.com/aliyss/vim-himalaya-ui"

:PackerSync

Using vim-plug

Plug 'https://github.com/aliyss/vim-himalaya-ui'

:PlugInstall

Using lazy.nvim

return {
    "aliyss/vim-himalaya-ui",
    cmd = {
        "HimalayaUI"
    },
    init = function()
        -- Your HimalayaUI configuration
    end,
}

Usage

After configuring your mail account and installing this repo, run :HimalayaUI to open the UI.

Actions

Drawer

Account Actions

• Create a new email
• List folders in an account
• List emails in a folder

List

List Actions

• Navigate Next & Previous Pages (Enter, n, p)
• Read an email in the list view (Enter)
• Refresh list of emails (r)

Email Actions

• Reply to an email in the list view (mr)
• Reply All to an email in the list view (mR)
• Forward an email in the list view (mf)
• Move an email in the list view (mm)
• Copy an email in the list view (mc)
• Download an email's attachments in the list view (ma)
• Delete an email in the list view (md)

Multiple Email Actions

• Move multiple emails in the list view (Visual mode + m)
• Copy multiple emails in the list view (Visual mode + c)
• Download multiple email's attachments in the list view (Visual mode + a)
• Delete multiple emails in the list view (Visual mode + d)

Email

• Send/Save email in the mail create/reply/forward view ()
• Discard email in the mail create/reply/forward view ()
• Reply to the email in the mail view (r)
• Reply All to the email in the mail view (R)
• Forward the email in the mail view (f)
• Move the email in the mail view (m)
• Copy the email in the mail view (c)
• Download the email's attachments in the mail view (a)
• Delete the email in the mail view (d)
• Add attachment to the email in the mail view

Additional Features

Render Email HTML

When viewing an email, you can toggle between the text and HTML view by pressing h. This however requires you to have a terminal eml/html viewer installed. You can set any browser of your choice and configure it like so:

let g:himalaya_ui_eml_converter = get(g:, 'himalaya_ui_html_viewer', 'mhonarc')
let g:himalaya_ui_eml_converter_args = get(g:, 'himalaya_ui_eml_converter_args', '-single')
let g:himalaya_ui_html_viewer = get(g:, 'himalaya_ui_html_viewer', 'cha')
let g:himalaya_ui_html_viewer_args = get(g:, 'himalaya_ui_html_viewer_args', '--type "text/html" -c "body{background-color: transparent !important;}"')

As you can see, I use mhonarc to convert the email to HTML and chawan to view it in the terminal. You can use any other tools of your choice. Make sure to install them first though.

Future

Fix multiple issues and implement more features.

Roadmap

Mail List View (aka $ list mails)

Uses the current window where in dadbod you write the query, but instead lists all the emails.

Actions (based on keybindings and hovered_over):

• Open externally...
• Move to... (Telescope integration?)
• Allow overriding the default keybindings

Mail Display View

Displays Mail as text. Toggable to HTML view which shows raw html.

Actions:

• same as in List View
• (when hovered_on Thread expand...)

Mail Create View (aka $ create mail)

Pre-filled based on context. Should actually already work easily as himalaya provides most of this.

Actions

• Better Save and Discard
• Add Attachment
• Discard

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Afaik that should be all of the main stuff.

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Hard stuff not provided by Himalaya:

• Images maybe with sixel. No clue. I actually don't mind reading Email in text only.