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From: "Gijs Hillenius" <gijs@hillenius.net>
To: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Emphasizing text when composing mails?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 12:04:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzpav4fq.fsf@hillenius.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87il50x240.fsf@vagabond.tim-landscheidt.de> (Tim Landscheidt's message of "Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:58:23 +0000")

On 14 December 2023 14:58 Tim Landscheidt, wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Gnus has the feature to display some words with a different
> face if they are bracketed with certain characters (*bold*,
> /italic/, _underline_).
>
> Is there a command for the opposite direction when composing
> mails, i. e. I write a paragraph, I want to mark up "for
> example" as bold, so I select those words as a region, M-x
> some-gnus-or-emacs-command, and the text changes to "*for*
> *example*"?

This is the difference between Gnus' Message mode (for writing) and its
Article mode (for reading). No idea if it possible to add display
features from Article mode to Message mode.

To know more about the Gnus mode you're in: M-x describe-mode (or C-?
and possibly others)



  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-19 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-14 14:58 Tim Landscheidt
2023-12-19 11:04 ` Gijs Hillenius [this message]
2023-12-19 15:49   ` Emanuel Berg

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