created March 24, 2002 · complexity intermediate · author Darren Greaves · version 6.0
I find the following setting useful when replying to email threads that have lots of lines like the following:
> blah > > blah > > > blah
autocmd FileType mail map <F8> :%g/^> >/d<CR>
When replying to a mail and you want to remove everything except what the person you are directly replying to wrote just press F8.
From the example above, you would just be left with
> blah
What it does is simply match any line starting with > > and deletes it. It's not perfect as sigs and other debris may remain but it takes a lot of the grunt work out of replying to mails.
The autocmd only maps F8 when using mails, this is handy if you use F8 for other things as I do.
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Why not just put the mapping in the ftplugin/mail.vim file?
map <buffer> <F8> :g/...
Have a look at Brian Medley's email ftplugin.