On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 04:21:44PM -0700, enh via Pcre-dev wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 12:53 AM <ph10@???> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 20 Apr 2020, enh via Pcre-dev wrote:
> >
> > > > Thank you. I will deal with this in a day or two (diverted elsewhere at
> > > > the moment) along with several other minor tweaks that have just
> > > > arrived.
> > >
> > > thanks! (i was worried that the patch got mangled by the mailing list
> > > because it looks a mess on
> > > https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20200416.220034.04568e78.en.html
> > > but i'll take this as a sign that it got through okay! let me know if
> > > i should send it some other way. gmail's not the best for patches...)
> >
> > Oh, I hadn't actually looked at it, but now I have saved the file and it
> > looks OK. Oddly, it looks reasonable to me on that mailing list URL as
> > well (using Firefox on Arch Linux). What was a mess when you looked at
> > it? (Just in case I'm missing something.)
>
> it seems to be a fairly random mix of monospaced and proportional text
> for me. for example, the first line "Index:" is proportional, but then
> the --- and +++ lines are monospaced, and it goes back and forth a
> lot. (in both Chrome and Firefox.)
>
That's because the HTML code produced by Lurker is wrong.
E.g. a text around CHECK_INCLUDE_FILE line reads:
<br> INCLUDE(CheckTypeSize)
<br> <br><pre class="art"> CHECK_INCLUDE_FILE(dirent.h HAVE_DIRENT_H)
It seems that Lurker presents the plain text messages with a proportional text,
but when it thinks a piece of text looks like a code, it switches to an
unproportional block. And it cannot recognize the end of the patch properly.
This is either a bug in ther Lurker, or the e-mail was sent erroneously with
a format=flowed MIME attribute.
-- Petr
