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François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 
> > Is gnus gratuitously removing forward slashs from messages?
> > Or have I just got something set wrong?
> 
> Slashes are routinely used to delimit a word meant to be rendered in
> italic font, and Gnus removes the slashes while this rendering occurs.
> Of course, you may adjust this.  See node `Article Fontisizing' in the
> manual, as a starting point, maybe.

I think I'd prefer to have gnus leave things alone that I purposely
type in to be seen.  However, looking through the material at the node
suggested I discovered no clue as to which thing should be set to
"nil" to stop this from happening.  "s" searches on "italic" or
"forward slash" were no more helpful.

Further it seems that this `forward slash removal' thing should default
to nil to begin with.  Users who want special handling of strings
inclosed in forward slashes can figure out how to do it.

Many situations require forward slashes.  Especially in mail about
computer use or unix utils. To be able to "see" what you've typed into a
message shouldn't require lengthy info searches.