On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:15:08AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 08/01/07, Ramagudi Naziir <naziirr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >what mailer do you use ? is your mailer comfortable for sending and > >receiving patches ? > > I sometimes use pine, sometimes kmail and both work just fine for > sending patches.
Pine is known for damaging patches (turning tabs into spaces, eating trailing whitespace), but according to Al Viro that is due to the Pico editor:
As long as you turn off the "flowed-text" feature and set it to not wordwrap lines, then pine sends patches inline just fine.
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