Re: [OT] Working with patches inlined in emails (was: Using gv in map and seq?)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nicolas Petton <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:31:20 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
> This is a bit off-topic, but I'm wondering how people work with emails
> in Emacs containing patches in the body of the email.

With "M-|", of course.

> With patches sent as attachments it's straightforward, but for example
> here for this patch I had to yank the content in a new buffer, trim the
> spaces at the beginning of each line, etc. which is clearly not
> efficient (I use notmuch).

I don't understand why you needed to trim some spaces, I don't see any
extra spaces in the mail Stefan sent.  Maybe your MUA needs to be
upgraded or changed?

Anyway, 'patch' has a switch to ignore whitespace, which helps in some
situations.