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Re: Meta-Kernel-Hacking tools of the trade

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:

  Set it to use vi as editor, rm `which pico` and be happy - usually patch
  is mangled by pico, not pine itself.

  ..ooO(and if somebody starts whining "but puko is user-friendly" you
  don't wanttheir patches anyway)


Erik
[who prefers mutt]

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