[PATCH v2 3/3] SubmittingPatches: remove pine-specific hints from MUA hints
From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <hidden>
Date: 2021-06-07 11:04:53
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Replace the whole section about configuring pine with no-strip-whitespace-before-send with a note that users should use another MUA instead. There hasn't been a release of Pine since late 2005, in Alpine the no-strip-whitespace-before-send switch is already the default. This documentation was initially added in 9740d289ee7 (Update SubmittingPatches to add MUA specific notes., 2005-08-26). At this point it's safe to say that it's not useful to anyone anymore, let's remove it. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <redacted> --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 54 ++------------------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index e372d17673..9c859dcfef 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches@@ -501,58 +501,8 @@ commit message. === Pine -(Johannes Schindelin) - -.... -I don't know how many people still use pine, but for those poor -souls it may be good to mention that the quell-flowed-text is -needed for recent versions. - -... the "no-strip-whitespace-before-send" option, too. AFAIK it -was introduced in 4.60. -.... - -(Linus Torvalds) - -.... -And 4.58 needs at least this. - -diff-tree 8326dd8350be64ac7fc805f6563a1d61ad10d32c (from e886a61f76edf5410573e92e38ce22974f9c40f1) -Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> -Date: Mon Aug 15 17:23:51 2005 -0700 - - Fix pine whitespace-corruption bug - - There's no excuse for unconditionally removing whitespace from - the pico buffers on close. - -diff --git a/pico/pico.c b/pico/pico.c ---- a/pico/pico.c -+++ b/pico/pico.c -@@ -219,7 +219,9 @@ PICO *pm; - switch(pico_all_done){ /* prepare for/handle final events */ - case COMP_EXIT : /* already confirmed */ - packheader(); -+#if 0 - stripwhitespace(); -+#endif - c |= COMP_EXIT; - break; -.... - -(Daniel Barkalow) - -.... -> A patch to SubmittingPatches, MUA specific help section for -> users of Pine 4.63 would be very much appreciated. - -Ah, it looks like a recent version changed the default behavior to do the -right thing, and inverted the sense of the configuration option. (Either -that or Gentoo did it.) So you need to set the -"no-strip-whitespace-before-send" option, unless the option you have is -"strip-whitespace-before-send", in which case you should avoid checking -it. -.... +Abandoned by its uptsream and has known flowed text bugs, use its +successor alpine or another MUA instead. === Thunderbird, KMail, GMail
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