Re: asterisks disappear

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <v9zn1w36uj.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> 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, ...)?

Oh, Mozilla doesn't but Netscape 7.1 emphasize it as a bold text
without hiding asterisks.  It may be better that Gnus follows it.

> I have used the following for quite some time:

> ;; keep emphasis characters around after emphasis
> (require 'gnus-art)
> (setq gnus-emphasis-alist ; <u8zbs8p6iue.fsf@blackbird-2k.MITRE.ORG>
>       (mapcar (lambda (x)
> 		(list (car x) (nth 2 x) (nth 2 x) (nth 3 x)))
> 	      gnus-emphasis-alist))
> ;; don't do strikethru
> (setq gnus-emphasis-alist ; <m3u1lu95u7.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de>
>       (delq nil (mapcar
> 		 (lambda (x)
> 		   (if (eq (car (last x)) 'gnus-emphasis-strikethru) nil x))
> 		 gnus-emphasis-alist)))

> (strikethru is already switched off by default now, IIRC)

Thanks.  It does just what I wrote.  However, it will be hard to
spread this to all users, especially newcomers.