On 2015-12-06 15:52, Randy Dunlap wrote:
It may be worth noting that you can get a plugin that lets you just toggle word-wrap with the internal editor (rather un-inventively called 'Toggle Word Wrap'), and that _seems_ to work most of the time. The down side to this of course is that it toggles for the whole message, and not just parts of it.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out of the changelogs :)Documentation: email-clients.txt The information for Claws Mail, Evolution and Thunderbird was out of date.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.
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