Hi Klemens,

Klemens Nanni wrote on Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 05:44:42PM +0200:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 05:27:18PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:

>> No need to fix it because the patch is not likely to go anywhere,
>> but once again you mangled the patch such that it won't even apply.

> Hm, the diff taken from my mail as is applies cleanly here.

Oops, i'd like to offer half an apology.

Your diff was fine, but your mail headers contain a specification
that prevents correct display, which mislead me.  I had never seen
such misformatting in mutt(1) before.

The problem is here:

> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed

Please disable the "format=flowed".  Patches are not flowed content.
At least mutt(1) does weird stuff by default and screws up the
display when finding that header, and other mail clients might be
worse.

I found the problem by reading part of

  /usr/ports/pobj/mutt-1.8.3/mutt-1.8.3/pager.c

Now, how do i get the vomit out of my keyboard.
Apparently, even mutt(1) is bloatware nowadays.

Of course, i also fixed my .muttrc settings to not change the
formatting of the mails i'm trying to read.  Adding "unset reflow_text"
to .muttrc fixes the screwup.  What a bother that such insane
features are enabled by default and send you on a wild goose chase
to the docomentation (and even to the source code) before you can
use the mail client.  What the hell, who wants his mail client to
lie to them about the contents of mail they receive?

Unfortunately, mutt is the only usable mail client i have ever
seen after elm and pine died (and it was always better than pine
in the first place).  So no choice here...  :-(

Enough ranted, back to work now.  :)

Yours,
  Ingo

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