From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59075 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: asterisks disappear Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:06:05 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87sm7ojvra.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> <874qk2dix8.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <87vfchcmrj.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <4nis8gfvr7.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zn1sldkv.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099926601 21946 80.91.229.6 (8 Nov 2004 15:10:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:10:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M7614@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Nov 08 16:09:41 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CRB9J-0004md-00 for ; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:09:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CRB65-00088Q-00; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:06:21 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CRB5y-00088K-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:06:14 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CRB5v-0005iO-9U for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:06:11 -0600 Original-Received: from washington.hostforweb.net (washington.hostforweb.net [69.61.11.2]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB6F3A003D for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:06:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from yahoobb218118002075.bbtec.net ([218.118.2.75] helo=) by washington.hostforweb.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.42) id 1CRB5u-0002qN-VR for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:06:11 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Nb1WKK1/v+9c5+f92RtHHk78oBc= X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - washington.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59075 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59075 >>>>> In <4nis8gfvr7.fsf@lifelogs.com> Ted Zlatanov wrote: >>> How about turning asterisk highlight off if the word "buffer" is in >>> the message? > Katsumi Yamaoka writes: >> That's a bright idea! I need to try it on later. Thanks. >>>>> In <87zn1sldkv.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> >>>>> Miles Bader wrote: > I think it cause a lot of confusion if turned on by default, though, as > it would likely miss a lot of cases, and maybe make the astericks appear > to be hidden randomly! Yes, it may be so. > Maybe it's best to make underlines default to "hidden" and astericks > default to "shown" and simply make sure that's fairly convenient to > change these defaults, especially per group (for my personal usage, it's > probably sufficient to simply makes astericks shown in any group whose > name matchs ".*emacs.*", and hidden otherwise). I still think it is better to show all text by default. It doesn't mean abolishing emphasis but, for example: * scratch * => *scratch* It might look indeed ugly. However, there is likely to be this custom (i.e. hiding asterisks) only in Gnus and others don't seem to do so.