Re: asterisks disappear

["Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004, miles@gnu.org wrote:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>>> How about turning asterisk highlight off if the word "buffer" is in
>>> the message?
>>
>> That's a bright idea!  I need to try it on later.  Thanks.
> 
> I think it cause a lot of confusion if turned on by default, though, as
> it would likely miss a lot of cases, and maybe make the astericks appear
> to be hidden randomly!

I think it's an improvement on the current situation.

> Maybe it's best to make underlines default to "hidden" and astericks
> default to "shown" and simply make sure that's fairly convenient to
> change these defaults, especially per group (for my personal usage, it's
> probably sufficient to simply makes astericks shown in any group whose
> name matchs ".*emacs.*", and hidden otherwise).

In addition, I would have a customizable list of words whose
appearance in a message tells us to turn off highlighting:

"buffer"
"scratch"
"Messages"
etc.

Then I would make the highlight default as you suggest, with the
additional possibilities of 'smart-detect (what I proposed), t (the
current state), and, of course, nil.

Ted