From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59055 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: asterisks disappear Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 00:00:41 +1100 Message-ID: <87sm7ojvra.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099659802 32058 80.91.229.6 (5 Nov 2004 13:03:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:03:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M7595@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Nov 05 14:03:09 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CQ3kC-0002cw-00 for ; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:03:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CQ3jD-0000TY-00; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 07:02:07 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CQ3j4-0000TN-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 07:01:58 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CQ3iy-0004dU-OS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 07:01:52 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 616163A0067 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 07:01:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CQ3it-0000Io-00 for ; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:01:47 +0100 Original-Received: from 203-217-29-45.perm.iinet.net.au ([203.217.29.45]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:01:47 +0100 Original-Received: from daniel by 203-217-29-45.perm.iinet.net.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:01:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-217-29-45.perm.iinet.net.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YH0UFDiM32zufXOm+ovqJdXlVT0= Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59055 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59055 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 -- I am for an art of teddy bears and guns and decapitated rabbits, exploded umbrellas, raped beds, chairs with their brown bones broken, burning trees, firecracker ends, chicken bones, pigeon bones and boxes with men sleeping in them. -- Claes Oldenburg