Paulo Marques wrote:
Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
Rik van Riel <[email protected]> writes:
The problem is replying to an attachment. The reason why having
the patch in the main mail body is good is that it gets quoted
by the email software and you can easily reply to individual
parts of the patch.
If the attachment is "disposition=inline", does the problem still exist?
I've just checked this with Thunderbird (which is the mail client I use).
It not only sets the disposition=inline by default when attaching
patches, it also places the patch inline when replying to it, allowing
the user to write between the text of the patch as if it were part of
the email text.
However if we Copy+Paste the patch into the mail it gets line wrapped /
white space mangled.
That depends on where you are Copy+Pasting from. Granted, Copy+Paste from
a variety of sources is a nightmare. But, Copy+Paste from Tbird to Tbird
seems to actually work.
So at least for Thunderbird users it would be better to use attached
patches with "Content-Disposition: inline".
Here is a trick you can play with Thunderbird to get inlined patches:
1) Mail the patch to yourself as an attachment.
2) Read the mail you just got, copy and paste the patch to your new message.
This method preserves the tabs/whitespace. Of course, you have to set the
wordwrap settings appropriately. It works for me.
Steven
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