[PATCH] Documentation/email-clients.txt: clarify Thunderbird section

Alan Jenkins
2009-12-10T14:57:47Z

1) Make it clearer that there are three different methods here,
by using two different levels of indentation.

2) Reorder the different methods:

- Disabling word wrap altogether should be the last option.
It involves manually editing config files, and many Thunderbird
users will not want to disable word wrap for normal (non-patch)
messages.

- "Preformat mode" should be the first option. It's really convenient.
(Guess how I sent this patch).

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
---
Documentation/email-clients.txt | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
index a618efa..c899444 100644
--- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt
+++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
@@ -180,34 +180,40 @@ Sylpheed (GUI)
Thunderbird (GUI)

By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to
-coerce it into being nice.
-
-- Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
- messages in HTML format".
-
-- Edit your Thunderbird config settings to tell it not to wrap lines:
- user_pref("mailnews.wraplength", 0);
-
-- Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed:
- user_pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false);
-
-- You need to get Thunderbird into preformat mode:
-. If you compose HTML messages by default, it's not too hard. Just select
- "Preformat" from the drop-down box just under the subject line.
-. If you compose in text by default, you have to tell it to compose a new
- message in HTML (just as a one-off), and then force it from there back to
- text, else it will wrap lines. To do this, use shift-click on the Write
- icon to compose to get HTML compose mode, then select "Preformat" from
- the drop-down box just under the subject line.
-
-- Allows use of an external editor:
- The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use an
- "external editor" extension and then just use your favorite $EDITOR
- for reading/merging patches into the body text. To do this, download
- and install the extension, then add a button for it using
+coerce it into being nice. Try one of the methods below.
+
+- Get Thunderbird into preformat mode:
+
+ - If you compose HTML messages by default, select "Preformat" from the
+ drop-down box just under the subject line.
+
+ - If you compose in text by default, you have to tell it to compose a new
+ message in HTML (just as a one-off), and then force it from there back to
+ text, else it will wrap lines. To do this, use shift-click on the Write
+ icon to compose to get HTML compose mode, then select "Preformat" from
+ the drop-down box just under the subject line.
+
+- Use an external editor:
+
+ You can install an "external editor" extension which will allow you to use
+ your favorite $EDITOR for reading/merging patches into the body text.
+ First download and install the extension, then add a button for it using
View->Toolbars->Customize... and finally just click on it when in the
Compose dialog.

+- Disable word wrap completely:
+
+ 1. Under account settings, composition and addressing, uncheck "Compose
+ messages in HTML format".
+
+ 2. Edit your Thunderbird config settings to tell it not to wrap lines:
+
+ user_pref("mailnews.wraplength", 0);
+
+ 3. Edit your Thunderbird config settings so it won't use format=flowed:
+
+ user_pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false);
+
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TkRat (GUI)

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