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List:       mesa3d-dev
Subject:    Re: [Mesa3d-dev] [PATCH]: mesa: Resurrect SPARC asm code.
From:       Brian Paul <brianp () vmware ! com>
Date:       2009-02-27 2:06:26
Message-ID: 49A74AA2.8020207 () vmware ! com
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David Miller wrote:
> From: Brian Paul <brianp@vmware.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:36:38 -0700
> 
> > I use Thunderbird for email.  Your patch appeared inline; not as an
> > attachment.  When I saved the message to a file, long lines were
> > broken with a '=' symbol and that fouled up git-am.  I've
> > occasionally seen this before.  Don't know the cause.
> 
> > From linux/Documentation/email-clients.txt:
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> 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
> View->Toolbars->Customize... and finally just click on it when in the
> Compose dialog.

This didn't help with Thunderbird's "Save As File" garbling.  But with your latest \
patch/email it saved the message body as a block of mime/whatever-encoded data, \
rather than mis-wrapped ascii like before.

Thanks for the tips but I don't expect you to solve my Thunderbird problems. :)

-Brian


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