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Title: Write your emails in markdown with vim
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Date: 2019-04-22 19:00
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Author: Fabrice
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Category: tips
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Tags: emails, pandoc, Vim
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Slug: vim-md-emails
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Header_Cover: images/covers/amsterdam.jpg
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Summary: An example of how to easily manipulate email templates in a markdown.
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---
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If you are like me and you don't like to spend time using <abbr title="What You See Is What You Get">WYSIWYG</abbr> tools to format your texts, you may be interested in this.
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However, I'm using [thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net/) to handle my emails.
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As you may have noticed, you can copy paste from some web page and paste it in thunderbird (which can cause invisible break in the styling).
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Exploiting this, one can directly export html into the clipboard to past it in thunderbird.
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The command is as simple as:
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```sh
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pandoc -t html5 -s <file> | xclip -selection clipboard
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```
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Therefore, adding:
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```vim
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map <your map> :w !pandoc -t html5 -s \| xclip -selection clipboard<cr>
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```
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in your vim `ftplugin/pandoc.vim` configuration file allows you to copy directly the output of [pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) on you opened buffer into your clipboard and thus past it directly into thunderbird.
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Of course, you can customize this command line as you want. For instance my base-header-level is 4, as I think that first-level titles are a bit too much for emails.
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**Note:** I'm using the [vim-pandoc](https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc) and the [vim-pandoc-syntax](https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc-syntax) plugins for vim.
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Here follows a direct usecase of this: a GDPR death letter inspired from [aeris'](https://gist.github.com/aeris/675ffd5755f7570469448bb8b890f759) one.
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```md
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Dear Sir or Madam,
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My personal data, such as my e-mail address, are protected under the
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GDPR law since May 2016:\
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<https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/>
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As per article 3, all GDPR applies to you as I am an EU citizen, even
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if you are outside EU:\
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<https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/3.htm>
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As per article 15, I request you to provide me all personal data you
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have about myself, the purpose of the processing, why and **how** you
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collect them, if you share my data with others people or countries,
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and all other informations that are mentioned in the following:\
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<https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/15.htm>
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As per article 7, I request you to **prove** my **explicit** and
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**positive** consent fr my personnal data to be collected and
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processed:\
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<https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/7.htm>
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As per article 17, I also request all my personal data to be erased
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from your databases (including backups), with a proof of erasure,
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**but only once you provided me with all the aforementioned
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information**:\
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<https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/17.htm>
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As per article 12, these requests have to be fulfilled within **a
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month** from Today (April 4th 2019). Should this not be the case,
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I will open a case with EU regulator:\
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<https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/12.htm>
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As per article 19, I have the same request to **all your partners** to
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whom my personal data have been transfered to. These have to be
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accompanied by an attestation of erasure from these partners as
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well:\
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<https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/19.htm>
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This e-mail is signed under the GPG key
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[`0x2C5033B228CFE4E7`](https://fmouhart.epheme.re/documents/pubkey.asc)
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that also appears in the above website, which suffices to prove my
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identity as the rightful owner of these personal data.
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If you require further information to fulfill my requests, feel free
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to contact me on this e-mail address.
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Sincerely yours,
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```
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