Re: asterisks disappear

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

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, ...)?

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)

Bye, Reiner.
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