On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 05:45:39PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> All not exactly correct advice.
> 
> cvs -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs diff -uNp > aa
> 
> Then mail aa without mangling it with some sort of email program or as a
> mime attachment.  I use mutt with vim for all my email.  Others use
> emacs as their mail client etc.

Two more things I've found helpful:

 * echo "diff -uNp" >> ~/.cvsrc
   This is a nice "set it and forget it" thing :)

 * if you attach, try to get your mail client to recognize that it's in
   text format, and most people will be able to read it as if it were
   inline.

> Do NOT copy and past from an xterm into an email.  All tabs get replaced
> with spaces (among the the bad things that happen).

"Among the bad things" indeed. I've been bitten a few different ways by
pasting, none of them esxpecially pleasant.

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