From: Felipe Contreras Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 06:38:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] SubmittingPatches: remove pine-specific hints from MUA hints Message-ID: <609cc953e0ade_329320811@natae.notmuch> In-Reply-To: <20210512235136.GB10785@localhost> Dave Huseby wrote: > On 12.05.2021 10:45, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >There hasn't been a release of Pine since late 2005, in Alpine the > >no-strip-whitespace-before-send switch is already the default. > > > >This documentation was initially added in 9740d289ee7 (Update > >SubmittingPatches to add MUA specific notes., 2005-08-26), at this > >point it's safe to say that it's not useful to anyone anymore, let's > >remove it. > > What is wrong with keeping it in there? My latest version of the > etiquette patch moves my Mutt MUA config notes to this section on MUAs. > It could eventually become a somewhat exhaustive reference of MUA > tweaks. Old tools may not be popular but they sometime have niche uses > and/or userbases. My recent switch to Mutt has been mixed at best and I > went back to take a look at mh/nmh to see if I liked it better and I may > give it a go for a while to kick the tires, likely making me the only > developer that uses nmh. Have you tried notmuch? There's multiple clients. -- Felipe Contreras