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Re: Thunderbird and patches (was Re: [PATCH v2] Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.)

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BBBen Bucksch <ben.bucksch.news@beonex.com>
Date
Feb 9, 2009, 14:18 UTC
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On 09.02.2009 14:52, Jeremy White wrote:
> I discovered that if I just injected charset=iso-2022-jp, format=flowed
> would stay off!<grin>
>

(This was a hack, caused by the different use of spaces in Japanese / CJK, which means a different kind of "flow".)

> Ben, along those lines, we do have the ability to control the entire 
> body of a possible patch before Thunderbird sees it. Would it be 
> possible, or reasonable, for Thunderbird to look for and preserve a 
> 'format=fixed' setting inside a body that we generated?
I don't know how you're injecting the email to Thunderbird. mailto:?

What you propose is a header, not a body. (I'm a bit irritated that TB would react to a charset header *in the body*, but maybe that's a hack specially for charsets, in some code part I don't know, given that they are unfortunately sometimes only marked in content.)

I think it would most likely work easily if you inject HTML (read before you scream): mailto:fred@example.com?html-body=Here's patch revision abc from repo def:<p><pre>Patch: file ....<br>+++ bla<br>line 3<br></pre> (properly escaped, of course) It should invoke the normal rich editor, with the patch properly marked as preformatted. Once you send it, it would send it as plaintext, depending on your prefs. During the formatting, it would see the preformat section and should send it out with the lineendings as marked. I haven't tried the full chain, but it's something to play with.

Ben
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Message 13 of 44 in “Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.”
  1. Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.Jeremy White, Feb 8, 2009
  2. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Feb 8, 2009
  3. Jeremy WhiteFeb 8, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2009
  5. Michael J GruberFeb 9, 2009
  6. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2009
  8. Michael J GruberFeb 9, 2009
  9. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Feb 9, 2009
  10. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  11. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2009
  12. Thunderbird and patches (was Re: [PATCH v2] Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.)Jeremy White, Feb 9, 2009
  13. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  14. Jeremy WhiteFeb 9, 2009
  15. Michael J GruberFeb 9, 2009
  16. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  17. Jeremy WhiteFeb 9, 2009
  18. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  19. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  20. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2009
  21. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  22. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  23. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  24. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  25. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  26. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  27. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  28. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  29. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  30. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  31. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  32. Brandon CaseyFeb 10, 2009
  33. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  34. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2009
  35. Michael J GruberFeb 10, 2009
  36. Miles BaderFeb 12, 2009
  37. Michael J GruberFeb 12, 2009
  38. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  39. example patch corrupted by thunderbirdBrandon Casey, Feb 9, 2009
  40. Michael J GruberFeb 9, 2009
  41. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  42. Jeremy WhiteFeb 9, 2009
  43. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  44. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2009

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