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: Sat, 03 May 2003 00:00:11 +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 1051913465 32443 80.91.224.249 (2 May 2003 22:11:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 22:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 03 00:11:02 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 19Bij9-0008OG-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 00:09:59 +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 19Bien-0004EB-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 18:05:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!news.indigo.ie!feeder.news.heanet.ie!surfnet.nl!news.surfnet.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: occarina.pna.cwi.nl Original-X-Trace: news.surfnet.nl 1051912813 9474 192.16.184.200 (2 May 2003 22:00:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.surfnet.nl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 22:00:13 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (James D.'s message of "Fri, 02 May 2003 16:41:36 -0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pK8NDR4Vho0f29OARH3nEbORcZ0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112685 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:9182 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9182 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")