From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261918AbVEEVeu (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2005 17:34:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261935AbVEEVeu (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2005 17:34:50 -0400 Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([192.65.95.54]:54453 "EHLO mailwasher.lanl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261918AbVEEVer (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2005 17:34:47 -0400 Message-ID: <427A9169.6050300@mesatop.com> Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 15:34:33 -0600 From: Steven Cole User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.0 (Multics) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paulo Marques CC: Krzysztof Halasa , Rik van Riel , Dave Hansen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] update SubmittingPatches to clarify attachment policy References: <20050504170156.87F67CE5@kernel.beaverton.ibm.com> <427A0B04.1030408@grupopie.com> In-Reply-To: <427A0B04.1030408@grupopie.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 4.7.0.111621 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paulo Marques wrote: > Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > >> Rik van Riel writes: >> >> >>> The problem is replying to an attachment. The reason why having >>> the patch in the main mail body is good is that it gets quoted >>> by the email software and you can easily reply to individual >>> parts of the patch. >> >> >> >> If the attachment is "disposition=inline", does the problem still exist? > > > I've just checked this with Thunderbird (which is the mail client I use). > > It not only sets the disposition=inline by default when attaching > patches, it also places the patch inline when replying to it, allowing > the user to write between the text of the patch as if it were part of > the email text. > > However if we Copy+Paste the patch into the mail it gets line wrapped / > white space mangled. That depends on where you are Copy+Pasting from. Granted, Copy+Paste from a variety of sources is a nightmare. But, Copy+Paste from Tbird to Tbird seems to actually work. > > So at least for Thunderbird users it would be better to use attached > patches with "Content-Disposition: inline". > Here is a trick you can play with Thunderbird to get inlined patches: 1) Mail the patch to yourself as an attachment. 2) Read the mail you just got, copy and paste the patch to your new message. This method preserves the tabs/whitespace. Of course, you have to set the wordwrap settings appropriately. It works for me. Steven