Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches

[WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:29:26PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:16:44AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>...
>> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> +Mutt (TUI)
>> +
>> +Plenty of Linux developers use mutt, so it must work pretty well.
>> +
>> +Are there any special config options that are needed??
>>...
>
>It should work with default settings.


I can't agree with this.

It took me lots of time to configure mutt to work well for me in the first
time. Just default settings are far _not_ enough, especially for us
non-english-speakers. One common setting is the encoding, of course, lkml
prefers UTF-8, so I must set my mutt with `set send_charset="us-ascii:utf-8"`.

Manuals of mutt told me to add "subscribe linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" if I
subscribed lkml, but in fact, we'd better _not_ add this, or it will drop
myself from cc list.

Or other things like these.

>
>mutt doesn't come with an editor, so whatever editor you use should be 
>used in a way that there are no automatic linebreaks. Most editors have 
>an "insert file" option that inserts the contents of a file unaltered.
>

Yes, you can `set editor="vi"` or other editors you prefer.


Regards.

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