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Excerpts from mail: (30-Nov-96) Re: Quote emphasis by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
>> Font lock does the same for emacs lisp code, i.e. highlight `foobar'
>> inside a string.
> But I still don't think this sort of thing should be highlighted (by
> default). As it stands now, the emphasis thing is fairly well-defined,
> and adding other syntax recognition thingies to it would just muddle
> the issue.

I agree with Lars. I didn't much like the highlighting of quoted passages. If
it is added to Gnus, I suggest that it not be a default setting. I also do
not think it should be added to gnus-emphasis-alist. Instead, a separate
function should be defined so that people who want such highlighting can add
it to their gnus-article-display-hook. Gnus-emaphasis is really an
implementation of the 'setext' definition (with admittedly a few logical
extensions like interpreting _*foo*_ as bold-italic). Adding the highlighting
of quoted passages to gnus-emphasis would muddy the waters of this
quasi-standard.