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| author | Giedrius Statkevičius <giedrius.statkevicius@gmail.com> | 2015-03-09 03:53:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2015-03-20 07:41:55 -0600 |
| commit | d50ca07863eb42ab5acb11ae6b2241c3db875061 (patch) | |
| tree | 66f428c5d744dc9106b1ac7f2ae3dbe2c9847bbc | |
| parent | 080684c88ac194dffee4228bb073af61b67ebfaf (diff) | |
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 <giedrius.statkevicius@gmail.com>
[jc: some minor wording/formatting tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/email-clients.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
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. |