From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 6/5] Documentation/format-patch: suggest Toggle Word Wrap add-on for Thunderbird Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:17:06 -0500 Message-ID: <20110415201706.GC13735@elie> References: <1302719749.21047.6.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> <87mxjtn8x7.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <20110413221736.GA773@elie> <7vzkntkc9d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20110414211125.GA15277@elie> <7vlizcfpz8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20110415021100.GA19829@elie> <4DA7F6C0.4050707@viscovery.net> <7vtydzcse4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4DA887FF.4070606@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Johannes Sixt , Jim Meyering , Drew Northup , git list , Yann Dirson , Stephen Boyd To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 15 22:17:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QApS9-0000q4-2Z for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:17:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754172Ab1DOURM (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:17:12 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:45057 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753477Ab1DOURL (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:17:11 -0400 Received: by yxs7 with SMTP id 7so1235311yxs.19 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:17:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=y3QcQHg0kJ5sRmWcR+QbLGRxub5kCjTXUmipbnNwU6w=; b=YpfjekMlgLueqGIJxDA8sB3HS6caqXip+AcPnx0frQSRKmKffgE5G/qt06UaR0sxca fZcUAvtLAQ9+CPsq7ql6uOlSm85OJiyQMELY0zx8IZXEahms1gF8GheoY3yBcggc5jSr P7a+HCxSpXzNS+155LKS3nZ7K2bth4WfJo0Vk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=XxJPZYqPQV6suwqc5uKe6awkChZjqtabTr9KaGmkbMZxTEHIjybHorrWFnC19FFMQ+ bzjl9oo80ki10I072TiQ9jtKpIslKTyrlZTm6qrGNZoUh686mbr7W61B7Jq5vUtgzRze ycV9MTrhF+WU4ytupvLzemLipAJtRQ/d/wQEY= Received: by 10.43.48.131 with SMTP id uw3mr2879138icb.405.1302898631153; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:17:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elie (adsl-69-209-64-230.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net [69.209.64.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id xc15sm1697256icb.14.2011.04.15.13.17.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:17:09 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DA887FF.4070606@drmicha.warpmail.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael J Gruber wrote: > Does this add-on toggle "format fl[oa]wed" also? Yep, it does. Great find, Hannes. > BTW: "AboutConfig" was great while it was needed, but these days you can > access Thunderbird's about:config from the options. So to summarize the three approaches (this is not a proposed wording; I'm just trying to clear things up for myself): By default, Thunderbird will send HTML mail, wrap outgoing mail to 72 characters for plain text mail, and transforms plain text mail to match the follow=flowed spec. To disable HTML mail, use Edit->Account Settings to uncheck the "Compose messages in HTML format" setting in the "Composition & Addressing" panel of the account to be used to send the patch. You've probably done this already --- many development lists do not like HTML mail for ordinary discussion, either. To disable wrapping and format=flowed, install the Toggle Word Wrap add-on that is available from https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/toggle-word-wrap/ It adds a menu entry "Enable Word Wrap" that you can tick off. Now you can compose the message as you otherwise do (cut + paste, 'git format-patch' | 'git imap-send', etc), but you have to insert line breaks manually in any additional text that you type. That's it. If for some reason that add-on doesn't work (maybe you don't like add-ons?), use the Config Editor (under Edit->Preferences->Advanced) to set mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed => false to disable format=flowed and one of the following (?) mail.wrap_long_lines => false mailnews.wraplength => 0 to disable line wrapping. You might also find the External Editor add-on from http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=8 useful. There is a script in contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline which can be used as an external editor to include patches with Thunderbird and populate the "To:", "Subject:", and "Cc:" fields.