From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramsay Jones Subject: [PATCH 5/6] git-format-patch.txt: Add to Thunderbird configuration Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 21:51:31 +0100 Message-ID: <5251CD53.10204@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: GIT Mailing-list To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 06 22:51:39 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VSvIf-0007HT-FC for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:51:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754721Ab3JFUvd (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Oct 2013 16:51:33 -0400 Received: from mdfmta010.mxout.tbr.inty.net ([91.221.168.51]:38222 "EHLO smtp.demon.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753756Ab3JFUvd (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Oct 2013 16:51:33 -0400 Received: from mdfmta010.tbr.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta010.tbr.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C166FBB19; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 21:51:32 +0100 (BST) Received: from mdfmta010.tbr.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta010.tbr.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C8E6FBABE; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 21:51:32 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.254.7] (unknown [80.176.147.220]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mdfmta010.tbr.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 21:51:32 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 X-MDF-HostID: 3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The Thunderbird section of the 'MUA-specific hints' contains three different approaches to setting up the mail client to leave patch emails unmolested. The second approach (configuration) has a step missing when configuring the composition window not to wrap. In particular, the "mailnews.wraplength" configuration variable needs to be set to zero. Update the documentation to add the missing setting. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones --- Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 9e0ef0e..5c0a4ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -438,7 +438,8 @@ Edit..Preferences..Composition, wrap plain text messages at 0 In Thunderbird 3: Edit..Preferences..Advanced..Config Editor. Search for "mail.wrap_long_lines". -Toggle it to make sure it is set to `false`. +Toggle it to make sure it is set to `false`. Also, search for +"mailnews.wraplength" and set the value to 0. 3. Disable the use of format=flowed: Edit..Preferences..Advanced..Config Editor. Search for -- 1.8.4