Am 13.08.2018 um 23:07 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes: > >> the mailing list [1], nor on the web interface [2]. The latter shows >> extra spaces on the context lines of the first hunk, though, which I >> can't see anywhere else. All the lines look fine in the citation of >> Ramsay's reply [3]. So I don't know where these extra spaces are >> coming from. :-/ > > Hmph, interesting. > > https://public-inbox.org/git/54a5367f-f832-402c-f51b-3225c92b41ad@xxxxxx/raw > > has "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed". That > page's rendition is more faithful to the bare text. That explains it: Thunderbird 60 disables most older Add-ons, among them Toggle Word Wrap, which used to turn off format=flowed for me. I did that now using the config settings mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed and mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support. > The funky " -" one I showed was what Gnus/Emacs came up with as the > result of its best effort to make the format=flawed into something > closer to "text", I think X-<. Sorry. :( > In any case, I do not think format=flowed can be reverted reliably > (or can it be? If so we should teach mailinfo to repair them). RFC3676 gives me a headache, perhaps I should go to bed. If we can assume that lines don't have trailing spaces originally then we should be able to reconstruct their contents, no? "A generating agent SHOULD: [...] Trim spaces before user-inserted hard line breaks.", i.e. lines with trailing spaces are doomed to truncation without hope for repair. René