Re: [RFC] e-mail clients

From: Randy.Dunlap
Date: Tue Sep 12 2006 - 19:17:16 EST


On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:08:37 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> >
> >pine (but make sure that it doesn't truncate trailing whitespace)
>
> Truncating whitespace at EOL is a good thing. Otherwise, quilt says
>
> Warning: trailing whitespace in lines 237,364 of
> net/ipv4/netfilter/regexp/regexp.c
> Warning: trailing whitespace in line 57 of
> net/ipv4/netfilter/regexp/regsub.c
> Warning: trailing whitespace in lines 307,308,309 of
> net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_layer7.c

Of course. But there were/are versions of pine that truncate
whitespace "for you," even if such truncation is not desired,
independent of quilt et al. So one wouldn't want to use that
"feature" for kernel patches.


> for example. Long lines are usually not broken up if pasted verbatim as this example line will show for sure abc.
>
> pine wraps text only when typing (at least that's how I configured
> mine), so it is all safe.

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~Randy
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