Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:02:29 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:24:13PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:29:26PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:16:44AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>>> ... >>>> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>> +Mutt (TUI) >>>> + >>>> +Plenty of Linux developers use mutt, so it must work pretty well. >>>> + >>>> +Are there any special config options that are needed?? >>>> ... >>> It should work with default settings. >> >> I can't agree with this. >> >> It took me lots of time to configure mutt to work well for me in the first >> time. Just default settings are far _not_ enough, especially for us >> non-english-speakers. One common setting is the encoding, of course, lkml >> prefers UTF-8, so I must set my mutt with `set send_charset="us-ascii:utf-8"`. > > This makes sense, but it's not really a mutt specific issue and > problems because mutt prefers iso-8859-1 over UTF-8 by default are > quite rare. > >> Manuals of mutt told me to add "subscribe linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" if I >> subscribed lkml, but in fact, we'd better _not_ add this, or it will drop >> myself from cc list. >> >> Or other things like these. >> ... > > Whether or not people want to get personal copies of answers to mailing > list posts is a religious issue being second only to the vi<->emacs wars... > > But as far as I understand it, this documentation is intended to help > people to get sending patches right (no line wrap etc.), not as a > generic documentation for mail clients.
Definitely. and to reduce the amount of repetition that we have to do.
I'll add a bit about it not being complete s/w package config info.
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