From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D29C43334 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2022 23:19:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S240868AbiGNXTG (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2022 19:19:06 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:43086 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232822AbiGNXTC (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2022 19:19:02 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:3::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2430749B79; Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:19:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:References:Cc:To:Subject:From:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=XGpd5T1EafVDLNNMFCoN/oDpo1B2rzHEZsGMSXen9LM=; b=KfoBEIF8M1t65cP6ile0m6SP1y T8b8W3HkhivO5XCW3uhZjImKuZGVAlVciHCyQBl/7fyol0ozTn7CPJNON9QArYvJD0sFaCBLtnvjY uDtmbwvunX+NqDJiW205u5gEQkPMHy97YN1/0Vk+xmgd8znjUfEKLyF9Wfd6+j8Ht1tye7V48IkrW yI2CdXSdtfHXa1zSoPrOS9bfetd2GQJeGsh0hsabb3Ue+f2Qje3b5l0BjjGajzZmzJGVHJas/zkXA KnLmzQ6panSYUocBfUnCqxK8XhLB27qKWeWQZtGx1E70D9sFaeTh6RVLlsaS41hcA9KfJgrXlQ6Yv oUsJQMpw==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::a6b3] by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1oC86k-002aUy-EM; Thu, 14 Jul 2022 23:18:58 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:18:57 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: process: Update email client instructions for Thunderbird To: sndanailov@gmail.com, corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bagasdotme@gmail.com References: <20220714131152.12709-1-sndanailov@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <20220714131152.12709-1-sndanailov@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On 7/14/22 06:11, sndanailov@gmail.com wrote: > From: Sotir Danailov > > The instructions don't match with the current Thunderbird interface. > Clarification on using external extensions. > New information on how to avoid writing HTML emails. > > Signed-off-by: Sotir Danailov > --- > Changelog since v1: > - better external extensions explanation > - information on avoiding HTML emails > > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20220713225037.1201-1-sndanailov@gmail.com/ > > Documentation/process/email-clients.rst | 64 +++++++++++++++++-------- > 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst > index 16586f6cc888..229cbde5b62c 100644 > --- a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst > +++ b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst > @@ -278,35 +278,57 @@ Thunderbird is an Outlook clone that likes to mangle text, but there are ways > to coerce it into behaving. > > - 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 > - and install the extension, then add a button for it using > - :menuselection:`View-->Toolbars-->Customize...` and finally just click on it > - when in the :menuselection:`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 :menuselection:`external editor` > - settings. If you are using some other editor then please read its manual > - to find out how to do this. > + > + The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use extensions > + which open your favorite external editor. > + > + Here are some example extensions which are capable of doing this. > + > + - "External Editor Revived" > + > + https://github.com/Frederick888/external-editor-revived > + > + https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/external-editor-revived/ > + > + It requires installing a "native messaging host". > + Please read the wiki which can be found here: > + https://github.com/Frederick888/external-editor-revived/wiki Does thunderbird v91.11.0 qualify as newer or older? I tried to use the external-editor-revived yesterday with v1 of the patch.. no success. v2 of the patch has more useful info (about native-messaging), so I installed that and still not happy. After pressing "External Editor" in a tbird reply window, nothing happens. Wait -- hold everything! Exiting tbird and reloading it fixed all problems. :) Thanks for all of the updates. (says the file's original author) Tested-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Randy Dunlap -- ~Randy