Re: RFA: Building GDB under GLIBC 2.8

[Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>]

> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:07:29 -0800
> From: "Jim Blandy" <jimb@red-bean.com>
> 
> > Jim, could you please try sending diffs such that they are readable in
> > a text-based mail reader?
> 
> I'm afraid gmail will mangle them if I don't include them as
> attachments.  MIME attachments have been in widespread use for a very
> long time; does your mail reader have difficulty displaying them?

Ugh, web-based email.  I keep wondering how people can write anything
but three-line mails with those.  I must be getting old...

Anyway, I use emacs's rmail to read my mail.  Have been for years, and
for me being able to have my mail inside my editor is fairly
essential.  Rmail isn't MIME-aware, which is great.  I don't get to
see most of the random crap that uneducated computer users attach to
their mails.  And if I really want to look at it, there's etach wich
detaches MIME attachments from my mail and saves them as a file.

Detaching attachments is fine for most things, but it is really
annoying for reviewing patches, since in many cases you want to make
remarks about particular lines of a patch, whcih is best done in line.
This is the reason why we used to have the (unwritten?) rule that
patches were supposed to be sent inline using a mail client that
didn't muck with the contents of the mail message.