From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16148 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sergio Durigan Junior Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Newline disappears (not sure if Gnus or Emacs fault) Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:58:12 -0300 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87ppzc5mi3.fsf@riseup.net> References: <8738w96p32.fsf@riseup.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362600306 31603 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2013 20:05:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 20:05:06 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 06 21:05:27 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UDKac-0005RW-MI for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:05:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54667 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UDKaH-0005BE-13 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:05:05 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 599zHrLc9+fGZuhb5YSBkQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:I8Gi36Kn2mF6YHwagyma9pxTg0A= X-URL: http://sergiodj.net/blog Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:87276 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16148 Archived-At: On Wednesday, March 06 2013, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Sergio Durigan Junior writes: > > Hi Sergio, Hi Tassilo, >> The problem: Gnus (or Emacs) is eating some newline characters in >> messages. This happens particularly often with hyperlinks, but >> yesterday it happened inside an inlined patch in a message. > > I'd rather say it's the fault of the email client of the mail's sender > which probably uses "format=flowed". Have a look at > > ,----[ git-format-patch(1) ] > | By default, Thunderbird will both wrap emails as well as > | flag them as being format=flowed, both of which will make > | the resulting email unusable by git. > `---- > > The same applies not just to Thunderbird, but probably to most graphical > mail clients in use today. So either the sender should disable that > somehow, or attach patches as attachment instead of inline. You are right. The guy is using mutt, but he enabled the format=flowed in the message. That, and also the fact that he hand-edited the patch, made it impossible to apply cleanly. Thanks a lot, -- Sergio