• NicolasKaiser

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.

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/SubmittingPatches, 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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