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. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
