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My name is Nicolas Kaiser. I hail from Kitzbühel, Austria.

I greatly enjoy proofreading. In regard to the Linux kernel, I'm a fan of [http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Coccinelle].

Des gheat amoi xog - in English: This deserves to be mentioned.
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= HOWTO integrate the checkpatch script into Claws Mail (or Sylpheed) =

If you intend to send or review patches with Claws Mail (or Sylpheed), scripts/checkpatch.pl is very useful for catching coding style violations.

Quoting from Documentation/Submitting``Patches, the patch sender "should be able to justify all violations that remain in the patch."

'''1. Create an action:'''

Configuration > Actions...

	Menu name:		''checkpatch''

	Command:		''/usr/src/linux/scripts/checkpatch.pl %f''

	(X) Shell command

Add.

Alternatively, just add

''checkpatch: /usr/src/linux/scripts/checkpatch.pl %f''

to .claws-mail/actionsrc

'''2. Optionally, add a toolbar button:'''

Configuration > Preferences...

 Toolbars > Main Window

	Item type:			''User Action''

	Event executed on click:	''checkpatch''

Add some nice icon, then

Add.

Move it up/down to a convenient location on the toolbar, maybe add an additional separator.


Now you can check an inline patch in a selected message with a single mouse click.

When sending a patch, you can first put the message into the queue folder, check it there, then send the queued messages.
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