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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:
> 
> > Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> > 
> >   > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:
> >   > 
> >   > > Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com> writes:
> >   > > 
> >   > >   > The enriched-mode things works, but it is a pain in the
> >   > >   > ass doing all the text-properties by hand.
> >   > > 
> >   > > Oh, the wonders of `direct manipulation'...  But seriously, how
> >   > > should Emacs know which words should be italic?
> >   > 
> >   > By examining text properties.
> > 
> > And how do the text properties get there?  -- By hand.
> 
> "By ``text properties'' menu entry."  Or by whatever interface someone
> cares to implement.

M-x message-prettification-minor-mode

It could add some keybinding to do the fun things like bold, italic, etc.

You could even make it smart enough that if the user has used _only_ things 
that can be represented as *bold* or /italic/, it would send them out like
that, otherwise it could drop it into HTML or richtext.

-Bill P.