Re: asterisks disappear

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On 5 Nov 2004, Reiner Steib wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05 2004, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>
>> `gnus-treat-emphasize' is 50000 by default and Gnus users cannot
>> see asterisks which surround words.  Although I know what a bold
>> text means, all users aren't so.  I am perplexed when telling
>> someone "Try it on the *scratch* buffer".  WDYT?
>
> I agree.  How do other clients that treat emphasis character handle
> this (e.g. Mozilla, Thunderbird, ...)?

They show the characters that caused the emphasis as well as the style
change.  This is, I believe, vastly superior behavior.

I, also, have modified this forever and like it much better.

   Daniel
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