From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lute Kamstra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: off-topic? Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 07:44:54 +0200 Organization: CWI, Amsterdam 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 1051854270 1743 80.91.224.249 (2 May 2003 05:44:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 05:44:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 02 07:44:28 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 19BTLQ-0000Rz-00 for ; Fri, 02 May 2003 07:44:28 +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 19BTMX-0001pw-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 01:45:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!surfnet.nl!news.surfnet.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: occarina.pna.cwi.nl Original-X-Trace: news.surfnet.nl 1051854294 25309 192.16.184.200 (2 May 2003 05:44:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.surfnet.nl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 05:44:54 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (James D.'s message of "Fri, 02 May 2003 00:12:14 -0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1gNlfWoYA0cQyMj502063Z8h2fU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112647 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:9143 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9143 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. -- (spook) => "MD5 fissionable gamma" (insert-file-contents "~/.signature") => (error "`~/.signature' too rude")