Re: How to include code in e-mail?

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 24.08.2015 um 18:45 schrieb David Kastrup:
>> Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Am 20.08.2015 um 09:41 schrieb Phil Holmes:
>>>> For trivially small examples (like this is) I think most people find
>>>> it far easier to comment if you post the code in line, rather than
>>>> as an attachment.  I certainly do.
>>> I just recalled this remark of yours and wanted to reply to it.
>>> I’ve taken a habit of (almost) always including code as an attachment,
>>> since thus
>>> (a) there’s no chance of it getting messed up anywhere on its path and
>>> (b) I work with Frescobaldi (as a majority of people do, I think) and
>>> to test the code I needn’t even do any copy&paste but can just open
>>> the file with Frescobaldi.
>>> On the other hand it doesn’t allow commenting inline, that’s true. So
>>> likely it’s a matter of preference. What do others think?
>> I tend to use an attachment with disposition "inline".
> And how exactly do you do that, I’ve always been wondering?

Gnus asks me how I want my file attachments when I insert them using
C-c C-m f RET

I'm appending one here so that you can see how it looks:

guitarmusic =  {
        \key g \minor
        R1*12
        r8 bes'8\1 bes'\1 bes'\1 r8 a'\1 a'\1 a'\1 r c''\1 c''\1 c''\1 r bes'\1 
bes'\1 bes'\1
        r bes'\1 bes'\1 bes'\1  r a'\1 a'\1 a'\1 r d''\1 d''\1 d''\1 r d''\1 
d''\1 d''\1
        r8 bes'8\1 bes'\1 bes'\1 r8 a'\1 a'\1 a'\1 r c''\1 c''\1 c''\1 r bes'\1 
bes'\1 bes'\1
        r bes'\1 bes'\1 bes'\1 r a'\1 a'\1 a'\1 d''\1 d''\1 d''\1 d''\1 d''\1 
d''\1 d''\1 d''\1
}

\version "2.14.0"
\score {
        \new StaffGroup <<
                \new TabStaff <<
                        \set TabStaff.stringTunings = #`(,(ly:make-pitch 0 2 
NATURAL) ,(ly:make-pitch -1 6 NATURAL) ,(ly:make-pitch -1 4 NATURAL) 
,(ly:make-pitch -1 1 NATURAL) ,(ly:make-pitch -2 5 NATURAL) ,(ly:make-pitch -2 
2 NATURAL) )
                        {
                                \guitarmusic
                        }
                >>
        >>
        \layout{}
}

Now how you insert inline attachments when using a different mail client
like, say, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/31.8.0, I have no idea.

But I should think that a dedicated industry standard standalone mail
program should easily offer the same amount of functionality as some
add-on interpreted-language extension for a general-purpose text editor.

But then I don't exactly have an impressive track record guessing the
capabilities of standard applications when compared to the crude hacks
I have grown accustomed to.

-- 
David Kastrup