From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexander Nikolov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: off-topic? Date: 03 May 2003 21:21:42 +0000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051986326 7025 80.91.224.249 (3 May 2003 18:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 18:25:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 03 20:25:24 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 19C1hL-0001p3-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 20:25:23 +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 19C1hb-00060V-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2003 14:25:39 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsfeed.cs.wisc.edu!144.212.100.101.MISMATCH!newsfeed!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!ip217-30.mnet.BG!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip217-30.mnet.bg (193.110.217.30) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1051986162 15193299 193.110.217.30 (16 [159246]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112731 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:9226 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9226 Lute Kamstra writes: > 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. > > Lute. > > -- > (spook) => "counter terrorism Compsec Armani" > (insert-file-contents "~/.signature") => (error "`~/.signature' too rude") Surrounding words with * is new to me, it sounds useful. I personally mark the words and then use MM--gg bb for bold, M-g i for italics, _M_-_g _u for underlined.