From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: [a] emphasis intelligence; [b] URLs -vs- smileys
Date: 15 Jan 1997 01:51:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2buarzrot.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of 12 Jan 1997 08:28:24 -0500
Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:
> [a] I've noticed that emphasization is a little too dumb regarding
> (especially) end-of-phrase punctuation. That is,
> *This is boldface*.
> but
> *This is not.*
Yup. Fix in Red Gnus v0.81.
> [b] Another display mis-twiddle, brought to mind by seeing Brad
> Templeton arguing about URL parsing in message bodies, is that
> PATH=/usr/lib/news:/bin
> displays as (for those of you not using smileys, and pardon the
> pseudo-HTML)
> PATH=/usr/lib/<bold>news<ironic-smiley>bin</bold>
> Is it possible to make recognition of URLs avoid preceding
> non-whitespace? And for genuine URLs, can smilification be
> priority-downgraded so as not to interrupt a URL (perhaps based on
> there being boldface text already present)?
Hm... Yes, but you'd have to be careful not to not not smilify things
that just happen to be bold for some highlighting purpose or other.
> (For that matter, can this mis-display be avoided?
> Hey, bub, let me give you some news:
Yup. Fix in Red Gnus v0.81.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen
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1997-01-12 13:28 Karl Kleinpaste
1997-01-12 21:43 ` Rich Pieri
1997-01-15 0:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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