That IS my setup at work. I've recently discovered mutt and irssi which I use for email and chat, respectively. All development happens in tmux sessions with vi

That IS my setup at work. I've recently discovered mutt and irssi which I use for email and chat, respectively. All development happens in tmux sessions with vim. My dock contains finder, iterm2, chrome and the trashcan. If I could remove finder and the trashcan I would... On a slightly related topic, I've started investigating writing a console based email client recently in Python using Urwid for curses stuff that's a little less archaic than mutt.