Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated

[Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
> > What I find amusing is that it was a patch rejection mail from you
> > *years* back (circa 2000 iirc), telling me my pine corrupted whitespace,
> > that made me switch MUA ;-)
> > 
> > All these years later, and it's still buggered ?
> 
> Actually, it seems better. It seems to be buggered by default, but it used 
> to be that you had to actually recompile pine to make it behave. Now you 
> can just disable "strip-whitespace-before-send" and _enable_ 
> "quell-flowed-text" and those together seem to do the trick. No extra 
> patches or recompiles necessary.

Indeed.  I use those two options like that, too.  (-:

> So there's progress. 
> 
> Of course, pico is still pico. Which I find a bit sad: my editor of choise 
> is still an improved version of uemacs, and pico actually comes from the 
> same uemacs history, but has different key-bindings for just enough keys 
> to be slightly confusing.
> 
> Still, that shared history means that I find pico a lot more to my taste 
> than just about any other emailer editor out there. It may have a few 
> differences, but it has more things in common..

Why don't you enable "enable-alternate-editor-implicitly" and set 
editor = "your-editor-of-choice" in the pine config?  It is integrated in 
a quite seamless way.

Best regards,

	Anton
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