Re: [PATCH v2] Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.

From: Ben Bucksch <ben.bucksch.news@beonex.com>
Date: Feb 9, 2009, 13:52 UTC
Message-ID: <49903501.7060308@beonex.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902091433270.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On 09.02.2009 14:36, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Ben Bucksch wrote:
>    
>> Or you could just publish:
>> 1. Prefs | Advanced | General | Config Editor...
>> 2. "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" = false
>>      
> Ah.  Mhm...
>    
>> As inline attachments, they'll show up inline in the msg viewer as well
>>      
> ... which is a moot point, as the responder has to do extra work to quote
> the stuff.  Definitely not my type of friendliness.

In newer Thunderbirds, you can mark / select a text, and when you hit reply, it (and only that) will be quoted - called selective quote. You can press Ctrl-A (for Select All) before hitting reply, and the inline attachment will be included in the quote.

> I stay by my word and recommend other mailers than Thunderbird.
>

Please be sure to also cite the pref change I mentioned above as alternative.

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> It is one thing to be nice to the "average" user, but another one to be
> unfriendly to the people making the internet revolution possible.
>

Hey now!

I hope you realize that Netscape / Mozilla had a really important role in making the Internet popular in the public in the first place (the alternatives were AOL and CompuServe back then), and that Mozilla is *the* most-used Open Source application. In fact, Firefox' market share on Windows made a large contribution to Linux, by convincing web sites authors to not assume IE, which is a big reason why Linux is usable at all. Imagine the web or email was only usable with IE or Outlook... </diversion>

I use Linux myself everywhere, and recommend it to many people, and I think it's technically excellent.

BTW: I want to use this occasion to thank all you Linux programmers for 
your awesome, technically superiour work. Thanks a lot, and keep it up! :-)

Ben