Re: [hackers] [dwm][PATCH] ColBorder has been moved to the enum with ColFg and ColBg.

From: Silvan Jegen <s.jegen_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:06:56 +0100

Dear Laslo

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Laslo Hunhold <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:17:25 +0100
> Silvan Jegen <s.jegen_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Silvan,
>
>> I see, thanks!
>>
>> Still sounds to me like having patches as attachments just causes me
>> to have to change my default configuration though.
>>
>> What is the advantage of attaching the patches instead of just sending
>> them inline, I wonder.
>
> because not everyone uses Mutt. Having dedicated attachments is
> consistent when you send multiple patches, makes it easier to save them
> somewhere for people who use "normal" mail-clients (no offense against
> mutt of course).

I am sure they work great with nmh too! :P


> The most prominent reason I see though is that when people browse the
> mailing list archives of suckless.org, it's pretty much impossible to
> extract the patch files from the archived messages, however it is
> trivial when they are attachments.

That is a good point. I have actually been quite frustrated with not
being able to download raw emails from mailing lists for a while now.
I assume the common email archivers don't allow that because it would
make it too easy to harvest email addresses? Not sure.


Cheers,

Silvan
Received on Fri Mar 16 2018 - 09:06:56 CET