From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9450 invoked by alias); 14 Dec 2008 19:57:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 9442 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Dec 2008 19:57:38 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:57:03 +0000 Received: from brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost.sibelius.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mBEJupMU030698; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:56:51 +0100 (CET) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mBEJuoDq010551; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:56:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:57:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200812141956.mBEJuoDq010551@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: jimb@red-bean.com CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <8f2776cb0812132207n4e0f1419l5327a10b5383bd24@mail.gmail.com> (jimb@red-bean.com) Subject: Re: RFA: Building GDB under GLIBC 2.8 References: <8f2776cb0812121804n1008f921h3898bb7bda1581c9@mail.gmail.com> <200812132032.mBDKWDxP005595@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <8f2776cb0812132207n4e0f1419l5327a10b5383bd24@mail.gmail.com> Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-12/txt/msg00262.txt.bz2 > Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:07:29 -0800 > From: "Jim Blandy" > > > 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.