Excerpts from florent.becker's message of Mon Nov 17 12:04:28 +0100 2008:
> Trent W. Buck wrote:
> 
> > Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> >> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 19:11:29 +0100, Florent Becker wrote:
> >>> >> We could have an out-of-band description (anything that follows the
> >>> >> line
> >>> >>     *END OF DESCRIPTION*
> >>> >> is ignored)
> >>> >
> >>> > I think that's orthogonal to my suggestion (i.e. we could do both).
> >>> 
> >>> If you have a responsive mail server, then when you see that advice it's
> >>> already too late to use it (you won't be able to kill darcs before the
> >>> mail is sent).
> >>
> >> The idea would be to kill darcs while you are still in your text editor
> >> (which is what I already do, so I thought maybe making the advice
> >> explicit could be handy).
> > 
> > Right, it could say something like:
> > 
> > 
> >     If you have reached this point and decided NOT to send the mail, you
> >     currently have to kill the darcs process.  For example, in vim type
> > 
> >         ^[!killall darcs^M
> > 
> >     or in Emacs, type
> > 
> >         M-! killall darcs RET
> 
> Here is another idea from myself on #darcs instead of asking a question, add
> a line in the editor (under *END OF DESCRIPTION*) that says
> 
> #you may uncomment one or more of the following lines if you changed your 
> # mind about sending this patch:
> # cancel the whole sending
> # dump mail to file: REPLACE/ME/WITH/PATH/TO/FILE.eml
> # dump bundle to file: REPLACE/ME/WITH/PATH/TO/FILE.dpatch
> 
> This way, you can get the result of -O or cancel, or get a copy of the whole
> mail (as was discussed a little while ago) after you have selected your
> patches. This also looks more elegant than saying "go to another terminal
> and kill this program" without adding flags or questions to the UI. What do
> you think?

I agree, that just great!

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai
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