From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mr. Etter" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs text mode and formatting Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:25:43 -0500 Message-ID: <4ECC4B97.4060005@member.fsf.org> References: <32872628.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322011794 2066 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2011 01:29:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:29:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: AngusC Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 23 02:29:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RT1ei-0004oo-0O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:29:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36575 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT1eg-0007Qj-Si for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:29:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45013) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT1as-0006rw-VV for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:25:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT1as-0007TY-6S for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:25:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:52202) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RT1as-0007TU-47 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:25:46 -0500 Original-Received: by vbbfn1 with SMTP id fn1so991364vbb.0 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:25:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:newsgroups:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=BCDHkthmC+Du1d4HNGW7Y94w/xcz1SapPxBtxlbZvGs=; b=bIpKZ1ELmYI7KB76iWRnJov7X0kBbh5surIPyBmIiNnkO/F7jBpXkCVFYRrFY06Hk3 IVfoamHi5t9pPnE/VkAasuhaIuJR8ADgfsJs6s2Yf1ZBkZZ8NM7Bw75gk7GhMtpNkSSR 9PKGnduv2MWhiDc/UHXodCYIOSujcaJzozoc8= Original-Received: by 10.52.176.98 with SMTP id ch2mr23092765vdc.82.1322011544932; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:25:44 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [128.238.79.116] (iridescence.poly.edu. [128.238.79.116]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w5sm21274932vdh.17.2011.11.22.17.25.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:25:44 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111110 Thunderbird/8.0 Original-Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <32872628.post@talk.nabble.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.212.41 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:29:40 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83006 Archived-At: On 11/22/2011 09:43 AM, AngusC wrote: > > I have created a text file in emacs and saved the file. I later applied > formatting, well bold, using m-o b to some text and re-saved. But when I > re-open the text file I lose the formatting. > > I am guessing this is a restriction of the text format rather than emacs > itself. Is there a way I can save the file so that my formatting is > retained? Sorry for duplicate. Somebody got duplicates. Angus what file type are you editing? Mr. Etter