Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:25:22 +0000 | | From | Alan Jenkins <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation/email-clients.txt: clarify Thunderbird section |
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jim owens wrote: > I don't have a problem with your patch, but it is not true > that you need to edit the prefs.js to disable line wrap. > > I did this in the gui to fix my own patch sending, > under "Composition" you can set the wrap = 0. > > While changing format=flowed does require editing the file, > on my version of Thunderbird, 2.0.0.23, it isn't clear how > it breaks the patch to leave it flowed. > > And I have never used HTML, Preformat. > > jim > > Though now that I have said that, Andrew will probably > tell me the patch I sent is broken ;) >
/google
The RFC for format=flowed says that it should escape lines which start with a space (by "space stuffing" - prepending an additional space). So in theory it should completely break patches. And indeed it does <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2003-q2/msg00315.html>
Using HTML preformat in current versions of Thunderbird appears to send with a format=flowed content-type, and then violates the RFC by not performing any space-stuffing.
So if I look at format=flowed patch in my Sent email folder, I see that the message viewer correctly strips the first leading space in each line. I.e. it breaks if you use copy+paste to get the patch out of Thunderbird (or any other format=flowed aware client). File->Save As preserves the spaces though, allowing the patch to be applied.
Regards Alan "Don't you feel better knowing that"
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