Neovim plugin that allows for basic reading of last emails from the main Gmail inbox and to send text emails from Neovim. Rather than a fully fledged plugin, it is a minimum functional plugin used as an exploration of the capabilities of the Neovim messagepack-RPC API.
As the plugin uses Rust to perform the Gmail actions, it is required to build the Rust binary for your platfrom which can be done using cargo. Cargo can be installed with rustup.
After cloning the repository, a simple build can be done by executing $ ./build.sh.
This generates the binary in the /bin folder, which can be later used when
configuring the plugin. It is okay to move the compiled file to somewhere else
and specify it's location when configuring the plugin (see below).
After that, just install it from local using your preferred package manager. For example, using packer:
use({ "~/nvim-gmail/" })In order to get access to the :GmailOpen and :GmailSendEmail commands, require
the package in your config:
require("nvim-gmail").setup({
username = "yourgmail@gmail.com",
pass = "your_password",
bin_path = "path/to/rust/compiled/binary",
})NOTE: In case 2-Step Verification is enabled for Gmail, you need to generate an
application password and use
that as your password when using GmailInbox::new().
Requiring the package creates two commmands: :GmailOpen and :GmailSendEmail.
Opens a non-modifiable buffer with the last 20 messages from the main Gmail inbox.
Pressing Enter on an Email opens the raw Email content in a new buffer.
Opens an editable buffer that allows for writing the body of an email. In order
to send the email, just press cc in Normal mode. After that, the plugin will
ask for a "subject" and a "to" address. After a successfully sent email, the
buffer will be closed automatically.
As indicated at the beginning, the plugin mainly served as an exploration of the Neovim API and its interfacing with Rust. However, it can serve as a quick tool for sending emails from Neovim with all the benefits of not having to leave the editor.