From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter S Galbraith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: off-topic? Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 23:27:41 -0400 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <17915.1051932461@mixed.dyndns.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051932493 771 80.91.224.249 (3 May 2003 03:28:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 03:28:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 03 05:28:11 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Bnh4-0000CF-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 05:28:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Bngv-0002z5-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 23:28:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Bnge-0002wD-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 23:27:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Bngd-0002uU-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 23:27:43 -0400 Original-Received: from client-66.110.148-183.globetrotter.net ([66.110.148.183] helo=mixed.dyndns.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Bngc-0002s4-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 23:27:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mixed.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mixed.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F186431EF for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 23:27:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Message from Lute Kamstra X-Mailer: MH-E 7.3+cvs; nmh 1.0.4+dev; GNU Emacs 21.3.2 X-Face: "#bYm%*(4JuXAkouMxaLz|M2dbXUFnQ"IRX)zpsiM"(B}`#|_b548$VB}5L&VIck1F#FNc' rsASk0?-/gFp2qzM>0]`Jc}Qd<8[l)N7{8%qMN~{|DS.ME.$ X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9199 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9199 Lute Kamstra wrote: > James D writes: > > > Lute Kamstra wrote: > > > >> James D writes: > >> > >>> I often see people posting to newsgroups messages that include some > >>> bold, underlined or italic characters in the body of their text(?) > >>> messages. I use emacs as my external editor in kmail. How could I do > >>> the same? > >> > >> Try surrounding words with * characters to get *bold*, _ to get > >> _underlined_ and / to get /italic/ text. > >> > >> Lute. > > > > Fine, this works for Knode but that does /not/ work for kmail which is the > > mail client I use. Does this work only for newsreaders? Do you know of any > > easy-to-use mail client which supports these nice features? Thanks again. > > James D > > You asked how you could write the bold, underlined and italic text in > Emacs. The writing part can, of course, be done by any editor. > Displaying words marked as such must be supported by the mail or news > reader. I was under the impression that most did support this system, > but I don't know that many mail/news readers. I use Gnus, which is a > combined mail and news reader written in Emacs Lisp. It gives me one > reason less to leave Emacs. Gnus supports this underlining and such. > It's also quite easy to use. Once you have set it up right, that is. MH-E under Emacs also supports them. http://mh-e.sf.net Peter