Re: asterisks disappear

[Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>> [BTW, if you're going to retain the emphasis characters, apply the
>> emphasis to them too.  <bold>*foo*</bold> looks less weird than
>> *<bold>foo</bold>*.]

> I agree.  I'm going to modify the default behavior of emphasis
> bold during this week.  In addition to this, I'd like to improve
> the customization type for the `gnus-emphasis-alist' variable so
> that it may be easier to understand.

I see you committed your changes a few hours ago to both HEAD and the
v5-10 branch.  I agree that you have a point about new users being
confused by this, but I don't think it is appropriate to change the
default behavior of a stable release in this fashion...

FWIW, I like the way bold emphasis works in previous Gnus versions, and
I'd customize it back if the new way becomes the new default.

Cheers,

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