On 12/06/15 07:30, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 01:09:39 -0500 > Sanidhya Solanki <jpage.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Patch included below. As an aside, thank you for the excellent work on >> the books and other documentation. > > Thanks for the nice comments. Future praise, however, should go below the > "---" marker so I don't have to edit it out of the changelogs :) > >> Documentation: email-clients.txt >> >> The information for Claws Mail, Evolution and Thunderbird was out of >> date. It has been updated with new instructions and warnings. > > So I feel like I'm missing some sort of intentional irony, but I do have > to point out that this patch has been corrupted by your mailer and cannot > be applied. The usual advice here applies: try sending the email to > yourself and applying the result. > >> diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt >> b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index 2d485de..8819c90 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt >> @@ -79,17 +79,27 @@ to insert into the message. >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Claws Mail (GUI) >> >> -Works. Some people use this successfully for patches. >> +Tested and Works as of December 2015. Some people use this successfully >> +for patches. > > Not sure we need datestamps like this here. In any case, a few kernel > developers are known to use claws - myself included. We test it every day :) > >> To insert a patch use Message->Insert File (CTRL+i) or an external >> editor. >> If the inserted patch has to be edited in the Claws composition window >> "Auto wrapping" in Configuration->Preferences->Compose->Wrapping >> should be -disabled. >> +disabled. Also, under the heading "View", sub-heading "Character >> Encoding" +, choose "Unicode (UTF - 8)" >> + >> +Do remember that if you insert or type something in the main text area, >> +and decide to delete it, you will need to reset the formatting by >> opening +a new window for the change you want to make. Re-using the >> window in which +you deleted the text will lead to the new message >> being mangled. > > ...and this makes no sense to me. I've never seen any such behavior in > claws? > >> Evolution (GUI) >> >> +As of December 2015, the composing & inserting method described below >> +does not work. > > Could it really be that nobody is using evolution? Much nicer here would > be to describe how it fails to work, and, ideally, come up with a fix. > >> Some people use this successfully for patches. >> >> When composing mail select: Preformat >> @@ -244,8 +254,9 @@ Sylpheed (GUI) >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Thunderbird (GUI) >> >> -Thunderbird is an Outlook clone that likes to mangle text, but there >> are ways -to coerce it into behaving. >> +Thunderbird is an Outlook clone that likes to mangle text, but there >> are +ways to coerce it into behaving. In December 2015, the internal >> editor +options do not appear to work. > > Again, what's the problem here? I suspect there are people using > Thunderbird out there, how are they doing it if the documented approach > doesn't work? I use thunderbird with an external editor plugin, so I just insert patches with the external editor. -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
