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I've got a series of patches I want to send to an open source project but I'm not able to figure out how to properly format an email. I tried running a git format-patch command then attached them all into an email from Thunderbird but they all got rejected because each patch is supposed to be a separate email in itself. I want to avoid the git email commands because I have code in the same tree that is private and some that I need to send, which means I need to be able to manually review each email before it is sent.

I want to keep using Thunderbird, but there seem to be problems with it since it wraps lines and makes patches unusable. I also tried setting up fetchmail and mutt, but after literally 10 hours of reading and trying I gave up. Is there a non-fetchmail and non-thunderbird solution for sending git patches?

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git help format-patch has a section 'MUA-SPECIFIC HINTS' that mentions three approaches to specifically make Thunderbird usable with git:

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• the Toggle Word Wrap add-on
• configure Thunderbird to not mangle patches
• or using an external editor

Let me generously paste the documentation of the Linux project. I'm not limiting it to Thunderbird because the title of you question indicates general interest, rather than Thunderbird only. Also, check the source for updates, maybe via this link, as it's likely that updates won't propagate to this answer.

Git

These days most developers use git send-email instead of regularemail clients. The man page for this is quite good. On the receivingend, maintainers use git am to apply the patches.

If you are new to git then send your first patch to yourself. Save itas raw text including all the headers. Run git am raw_email.txt andthen review the changelog with git log. When that works then sendthe patch to the appropriate mailing list(s).

General Preferences

Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably asinline text in the body of the email. Some maintainers acceptattachments, but then the attachments should have content-type'text/plain'. However, attachments are generally frowned upon becauseit makes quoting portions of the patch more difficult in the patchreview process.

Email clients that are used for Linux kernel patches should send thepatch text untouched. For example, they should not modify or delete tabsor spaces, even at the beginning or end of lines.

Don't send patches with 'format=flowed'. This can cause unexpectedand unwanted line breaks.

Don't let your email client do automatic word wrapping for you.This can also corrupt your patch.

Email clients should not modify the character set encoding of the text.Emailed patches should be in ASCII or UTF-8 encoding only.If you configure your email client to send emails with UTF-8 encoding,you avoid some possible charset problems.

Email clients should generate and maintain References: or In-Reply-To:headers so that mail threading is not broken.

Copy-and-paste (or cut-and-paste) usually does not work for patchesbecause tabs are converted to spaces. Using xclipboard, xclip, and/orxcutsel may work, but it's best to test this for yourself or just avoidcopy-and-paste.

Don't use PGP/GPG signatures in mail that contains patches.This breaks many scripts that read and apply the patches.(This should be fixable.)

It's a good idea to send a patch to yourself, save the received message,and successfully apply it with 'patch' before sending patches to Linuxmailing lists.

Some email client (MUA) hints

Here are some specific MUA configuration hints for editing and sendingpatches for the Linux kernel. These are not meant to be completesoftware package configuration summaries.

Legend:TUI = text-based user interfaceGUI = graphical user interface

Alpine (TUI)

Config options:In the 'Sending Preferences' section:

• 'Do Not Send Flowed Text' must be enabled
• 'Strip Whitespace Before Sending' must be disabled

When composing the message, the cursor should be placed where the patchshould appear, and then pressing CTRL-R let you specify the patch fileto insert into the message.

Claws Mail (GUI)

Works. Some people use this successfully for patches.

To insert a patch use Message->Insert File (CTRL+i) or an external editor.

If the inserted patch has to be edited in the Claws composition window'Auto wrapping' in Configuration->Preferences->Compose->Wrapping should bedisabled.

Evolution (GUI)

Some people use this successfully for patches.

When composing mail select: Preformat from Format->Paragraph Style->Preformatted (Ctrl-7) or the toolbar

Then use: Insert->Text File.. (Alt-n x)to insert the patch.

You can also 'diff -Nru old.c new.c xclip', select Preformat, thenpaste with the middle button.

Kmail (GUI)

Some people use Kmail successfully for patches.

The default setting of not composing in HTML is appropriate; do notenable it.

When composing an email, under options, uncheck 'word wrap'. The onlydisadvantage is any text you type in the email will not be word-wrappedso you will have to manually word wrap text before the patch. The easiestway around this is to compose your email with word wrap enabled, then saveit as a draft. Once you pull it up again from your drafts it is now hardword-wrapped and you can uncheck 'word wrap' without losing the existingwrapping.

At the bottom of your email, put the commonly-used patch delimiter beforeinserting your patch: three hyphens (---).

Then from the 'Message' menu item, select insert file and choose your patch.As an added bonus you can customise the message creation toolbar menuand put the 'insert file' icon there.

Make the composer window wide enough so that no lines wrap. As ofKMail 1.13.5 (KDE 4.5.4), KMail will apply word wrapping when sendingthe email if the lines wrap in the composer window. Having word wrappingdisabled in the Options menu isn't enough. Thus, if your patch has verylong lines, you must make the composer window very wide before sendingthe email. See: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174034

You can safely GPG sign attachments, but inlined text is preferred forpatches so do not GPG sign them. Signing patches that have been insertedas inlined text will make them tricky to extract from their 7-bit encoding.

If you absolutely must send patches as attachments instead of inliningthem as text, right click on the attachment and select properties, andhighlight 'Suggest automatic display' to make the attachment inlined tomake it more viewable.

When saving patches that are sent as inlined text, select the email thatcontains the patch from the message list pane, right click and select'save as'. You can use the whole email unmodified as a patch if it wasproperly composed. There is no option currently to save the email when youare actually viewing it in its own window -- there has been a request filedat kmail's bugzilla and hopefully this will be addressed. Emails are savedas read-write for user only so you will have to chmod them to make themgroup and world readable if you copy them elsewhere.

Lotus Notes (GUI)

Run away from it.

Mutt (TUI)

Plenty of Linux developers use mutt, so it must work pretty well.

Mutt doesn't come with an editor, so whatever editor you use should beused in a way that there are no automatic linebreaks. Most editors havean 'insert file' option that inserts the contents of a file unaltered.

Wim Editor Gui

To use 'vim' with mutt: set editor='vi'

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if you want to include the patch inline.(a)ttach works fine without 'set paste'.

You can also generate patches with 'git format-patch' and then use Muttto send them: $ mutt -H 0001-some-bug-fix.patch

Config options:It should work with default settings.However, it's a good idea to set the 'send_charset' to: set send_charset='us-ascii:utf-8'

Mutt is highly customizable. Here is a minimum configuration to startusing Mutt to send patches through Gmail:

The Mutt docs have lots more information: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/UseCases/Gmailhttp://dev.mutt.org/doc/manual.html

Pine (TUI)

Pine has had some whitespace truncation issues in the past, but theseshould all be fixed now.

Use alpine (pine's successor) if you can.

Config options:- quell-flowed-text is needed for recent versions- the 'no-strip-whitespace-before-send' option is needed

Sylpheed (GUI)

• Works well for inlining text (or using attachments).
• Allows use of an external editor.
• Is slow on large folders.
• Won't do TLS SMTP auth over a non-SSL connection.
• Has a helpful ruler bar in the compose window.
• Adding addresses to address book doesn't understand the display nameproperly.

Thunderbird (GUI)

Thunderbird is an Outlook clone that likes to mangle text, but there are waysto coerce it into behaving.

• Allow use of an external editor:The easiest thing to do with Thunderbird and patches is to use an'external editor' extension and then just use your favorite $EDITORfor reading/merging patches into the body text. To do this, downloadand install the extension, then add a button for it usingView->Toolbars->Customize.. and finally just click on it when in theCompose dialog.

  Please note that 'external editor' requires that your editor must notfork, or in other words, the editor must not return before closing.You may have to pass additional flags or change the settings of youreditor. Most notably if you are using gvim then you must pass the -foption to gvim by putting '/usr/bin/gvim -f' (if the binary is in/usr/bin) to the text editor field in 'external editor' settings. If youare using some other editor then please read its manual to find out howto do this.

To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:

• Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed.Go to 'edit->preferences->advanced->config editor' to bring up thethunderbird's registry editor.

• Set 'mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed' to 'false'

• Set 'mailnews.wraplength' from '72' to '0'

• 'View' > 'Message Body As' > 'Plain Text'

• 'View' > 'Character Encoding' > 'Unicode (UTF-8)'

TkRat (GUI)

Works. Use 'Insert file..' or external editor.

Gmail (Web GUI)

Does not work for sending patches.

Gmail web client converts tabs to spaces automatically.

At the same time it wraps lines every 78 chars with CRLF style line breaksalthough tab2space problem can be solved with external editor.

Another problem is that Gmail will base64-encode any message that has anon-ASCII character. That includes things like European names.

You can usually just drag and drop the files generated by git format-patch into your Drafts folder. I know this at least works with the Evolution mail client.

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I'm looking for a good GUI designer for swing in eclipse. My preference is for a free/open-source plugin.

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Window Builder Pro is a great GUI Designer for eclipse and is now offered for free by google.

Here is a quite good but old comparison http://wiki.computerwoche.de/doku.php/programmierung/gui-builder_fuer_eclipseWindow Builder Pro is now free at Google Web Toolkit

Look at my plugin for developing swing application. It is as easy as that of netbeans':http://code.google.com/p/visualswing4eclipse/

'Jigloo' is a very cool GUI designer. It is not free for commercial use however.It auto-generates code and allows for custom editing of the code it creates.

Another good GUI designer for Eclipse is Window Builder Pro. Like Jigloo, it's not free for commercial use.

It allows you to design user interfaces for Swing, SWT and even the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

Visual Editor is a good choice.

It generates very clean code, with no 'layout' files beside of your sourcen using a simple but convenient pattern. It's very easy to patch the generated code and directly see the result.There are some stability problems (some times, the preview window does not refresh anymore..), but nothing that a 'clean Project' can't fix..

visualswing4eclipse looks good but the eclipse update URL didn't work for me (I raised ticket 137)

I was only able to install a previous version. Here's a url in case anyone wants it:http://visualswing4eclipse.googlecode.com/svn-history/r858/trunk/org.dyno.visual.swing.site/site.xml

The plugin actually looks very good.

Old question, but have you checked out JFormDesigner?

GWT Designer is very good and allows for rapid development of GWT websites. (http://www.instantiations.com/gwtdesigner/)

I use GWTDesigner http://www.instantiations.com/gwtdesigner/ which is not free but works well. Best of all, their customer support is top notch - very responsive.

well check out the eclipse distro easyeclipse at EasyEclipse. it has Visual editor project already added as a plugin, so no hassles of eclipse version compatibility.Plus the eclipse help section has a tutorial on VE.

It's not free or open source. But you can give Intellij Idea's SWING GUI designer a try.

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