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buhe / vscode-mail

vscode-mail

A Mail client embedded in Visual Studio Code.

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2Distinct people
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0Explicit recommenders
38GitHub stars
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What it is

A Mail client embedded in Visual Studio Code.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-02-16 21:47:35 UTC to 2024-04-14 23:57:35 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 122024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 112024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 8

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Feb 122024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 192024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 262024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 42024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 112024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 182024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 252024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 12024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 82024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
subsection1h·Apr 14, 2024
LOL. I use Emacs for note-taking, spreadsheets, calculations, to-do lists, calendaring, email, static site generation and more. Please show me VS Code extensions that have feature sets comparable to those of Emacs packages like Org, mu4e, calc, etc. Here, I'll save you some time by eliminating a couple options: - VS Code Org Mode[1] has maybe 2% of the features of Org for Emacs. - The only VS Code-based mail client I've ever found is VSCode Mail Client[1], which was developed during a single month and then abandoned. VS Code is clearly for normies who use WYSIWYG word processors, webmail, etc. Suggesting that VS Code has surpassed Emacs for non-coding activities is laughable. [1] https://github.com/vscode-org-mode/vscode-org-mode [2] https://github.com/buhe/vscode-mail
In Emacs 2011-2023
samatman·Feb 16, 2024
> It's not a weird gotcha when dismissing the tool. If you want to artificially narrow the comparison to "writing SW" (which is even narrower than text editing), then by all means - VSCode is the superior tool. But why stop there? One, I wouldn't have conceded the crown to VSCode so easily as that. A fine-tuned Emacs config, with the requisite muscle memory and custom elisp, is a hot rod. I do use VSCode, and before that Sublime, but it was under protest, the details don't matter here but there were features I needed and no task budget for provisioning them in Emacs. Second, why not stop there? I have a program for reading my email, it isn't VSCode, I'm fine with that. So telling me Emacs can read email is completely irrelevant to my use of VSCode. For most people, adding all of these features to the Emacs side of the balance backfires,
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because now Emacs has to be better than all the tools they use for that stuff, rather than just better at what VSCode does than VSCode is. "Emacs does everything" is an aesthetic, and it has many decades of refinement, and people like it. That's fine. > Most people don't need or want all the UNIX tools' capabilities. Does it make sense to compare the Windows command environment with the Linux one and say "Don't include all these capabilities in the analysis?" This isn't at all what you're doing. It's more like if someone says "awk is fine for text munging, why would I use Perl" and your answer was that Perl has a web server. There's such a thing as a like-for-like comparison. Emacs has org-mode, it has SLIME, it has paredit and parinfer. Those are all edges over VSCode, whereas checking email isn't. This conversation piqued my curiousity, and indeed, there's a plugin for that[0], a few actually, and yes, I'm sure Emacs does a better job, for some value of better. But I'll never know, because I don't intend to use either tool for that job. [0]: https://github.com/buhe/vscode-mail
In The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)

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