linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: process: email-client: add Thunderbird "Toggle Line Wrap" extension

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Message-ID: <1aba733a-b29a-4931-b1c9-7df35774db38@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:41:28 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@...nel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rob Landley <rlandley@...allels.com>,
 Sotir Danailov <sndanailov@...il.com>,
 Giedrius Statkevičius <giedrius.statkevicius@...il.com>,
 Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: process: email-client: add Thunderbird "Toggle Line
 Wrap" extension

Hi,

On 12/25/25 4:32 AM, Vincent Mailhol wrote:
> While reading the git-format-patch manpages [1], I discovered the existence
> of the "Toggle Line Wrap" extension for Thunderbird which I found rather
> convenient.
> 
> Looking at the history, the ancestor of this extension was added to the
> documentation in commit e0e34e977a7c ("Documentation/email-clients.txt:
> update Thunderbird docs with wordwrap plugin") but then removed in commit
> f9a0974d3f70 ("Documentation: update thunderbird email client settings").
> 
> Extend the paragraph on Thunderbird's mailnews.wraplength register to
> mention the existence of the "Toggle Line Wrap" extension. The goal is not
> to create a war on what is the best option so make it clear that this is an
> alternative.
> 
> [1] man git-format-patch -- §Thunderbird
> Link: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_thunderbird
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@...nel.org>
> ---
> and Merry Christmas!
> ---
>  Documentation/process/email-clients.rst | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst
> index 84a2450bb6ec..27cd43b185dd 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst
> @@ -324,7 +324,14 @@ To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this:
>  
>    - Set ``mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed`` to ``false``
>  
> -  - Set ``mailnews.wraplength`` from ``72`` to ``0``
> +  - Set ``mailnews.wraplength`` from ``72`` to ``0`` **or** install the
> +    "Toggle Line Wrap" extension
> +
> +    https://github.com/jan-kiszka/togglelinewrap
> +
> +    https://addons.thunderbird.net/fr/thunderbird/addon/toggle-line-wrap/

Please use the URL from the git-scm.com web page (i.e., without "fr/").

https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/toggle-line-wrap

> +
> +    to control this registry on the fly.
>  
>  - Don't write HTML messages! Go to the main window
>    :menuselection:`Main Menu-->Account Settings-->youracc@...ver.something-->Composition & Addressing`!
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 9448598b22c50c8a5bb77a9103e2d49f134c9578
> change-id: 20251225-docs_thunderbird-toggle-line-wrap-dbe39bcb650b
> 
> Best regards,

-- 
~Randy