From: Giedrius Statkevičius Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 01:53:45 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Documentation/email-clients.txt: Fix one grammar mistake, add extra info about TB X-Git-Tag: v4.1-rc1~88^2~19 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d50ca07863eb42ab5acb11ae6b2241c3db875061;p=karo-tx-linux.git Documentation/email-clients.txt: Fix one grammar mistake, add extra info about TB Fix one grammar mistake (Allows->Allow) and add extra information about the external editor add-on of Thunderbird: the developer must make sure that their editor doesn't fork (IOW it mustn't return before closing) thus they should be careful how they configure the addon. Furthermore, add a tip how to do it with gvim. Signed-off-by: Giedrius Statkevičius [jc: some minor wording/formatting tweaks] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index eede6088f978..c7d49b885559 100644 --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ Thunderbird (GUI) Thunderbird is an Outlook clone that likes to mangle text, but there are ways to coerce it into behaving. -- Allows use of an external editor: +- Allow use of an external editor: The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use an "external editor" extension and then just use your favorite $EDITOR for reading/merging patches into the body text. To do this, download @@ -219,6 +219,15 @@ to coerce it into behaving. View->Toolbars->Customize... and finally just click on it when in the Compose dialog. + Please note that "external editor" requires that your editor must not + fork, or in other words, the editor must not return before closing. + You may have to pass additional flags or change the settings of your + editor. Most notably if you are using gvim then you must pass the -f + option to gvim by putting "/usr/bin/gvim -f" (if the binary is in + /usr/bin) to the text editor field in "external editor" settings. If you + are using some other editor then please read its manual to find out how + to do this. + To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this: - Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed.