From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Boldface typing Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:55:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <874msc30rr.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420002026 7089 80.91.229.3 (31 Dec 2014 05:00:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:00:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 31 06:00:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6BOM-0001mU-Im for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:00:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6BOL-0000PE-Sb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:00:17 -0500 X-Received: by 10.68.139.41 with SMTP id qv9mr50729498pbb.4.1420001713834; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:55:13 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.107.4 with SMTP id gy4mr788280igb.10.1420001713707; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:55:13 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!h15no33461063igd.0!news-out.google.com!qk8ni6425igc.0!nntp.google.com!h15no19527013igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <874msc30rr.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.48.132; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.48.132 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 04:55:13 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:209501 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:101778 Archived-At: On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 9:59:31 AM UTC+5:30, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > twlllmxxx writes: > > > Just learning emacs. Editing text, > > Ok. So what is a text file? > > > > I want to type a word in boldface > > and then go back to default. So I use M-o b and type in boldface, then > > M-o d and continue typing. It looks right: one word in boldface and > > the rest in default. Then I save the file. Then I re-open it, and the > > boldface is gone. Maybe I made a mistake. I repeat the editing, save > > the file, and then re-open it. Again the boldface is gone. Any ideas? > > > > I'm working from Learning GNU Emacs by Cameron et al., O'Reilly. > > > > This is GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600). > > > Use M-x enriched-mode RET first. Then you will save not a text file, > but an enriched-text file. If what you need is a word processor you should use that -- eg libreoffice, MSWord etc emacs does a rather poor job of word processing The solution in the emacs/unix world 20 years ago was latex/groff etc -- ie document processors Today the goto-solution for this (and 1000 other things) in emacs-land is org mode. It does have a long learning curve though...