Thunderbird and patches oddity (was: [PATCH] w32: Improve foreground window activation.)

[Werner Koch]

On Thu,  2 Jul 2026 20:33, Jacob Bachmeyer said:

> I *think* that Thunderbird behaves differently if the text is
> in a "Preformat" block.  This is an example.  I typed it in
> "Preformat" style and broke the lines manually.

I am not sure what a preformat block is in Thunderbird but assume that
is related to HTML to Text conversion.  The patch mail had no HTML part
but it was

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

Your mail was also flawed^Wflowed.  But indeed the above quote paragraph
was oka but your first paragraph had 0xC2, 0xA0, 0x20 sequences after
the end of sentence fullstop.  And my quoted text was another part as
text/html.

> When pasting patches or other pre-formatted text into Thunderbird, I
> have developed the habit of (1) starting a new paragraph, (2) changing
> the style for that paragraph to "Preformat", (3) typing the "8<------"
> lines, then (4) pasting the text between the scissor lines.

Good advise.  But TB should stop this weird behaviour in particular if
it is configured to send text/plain.  


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that
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