Re: asterisks disappear

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>> FWIW, I absolutely hate the "emphasize-but-don't-hide" behavior -- it
>> just looks sucky (more sucky with underlines that with bold/asterisks
>> though).
>
> The present default behavior is very good if all asterisks,
> underlines and slashes which surround words are used to intend
> to emphasize them.  I raised the problem on which Gnus users may
> misunderstand buffer names, e.g., "*Messages*", "*scratch*", etc.

Yes, I fully understand this.  Reading messages about Emacs with missing
asterisks is annoying -- but that represents only something like 1% of
the messages I read.

An easy-to-use per-group customization that would cause _only_ asterisks
to be retained might be a good thing (underlines are both more common,
and more adversely affected by the "retaining" behavior).  You might
even try to have this default to "true" on common Emacs-related
newsgroups.

-Miles
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