On Tue 31 Jan 2023 at 19:49:18 (+0100), Pierre Willaime wrote: > > I would like to format plain text emails to increase readability and > information separation. The idea is to go beyond markdown and to have > more visible elements. For example I am looking for a convenient way to > "draw" some ASCII boxes such as > > ##################### > ## some title here ## > ##################### > > (I am using emacs comment-box feature in a buffer to do this and I > replace ; by #, I suppose there is nicer way to do this).
The question then is why emacs uses ; as a comment character. If you're composing an email, I would expect to see another prompt: No comment syntax is defined. Use: unless you'd set up comment syntax for Text. I would only expect a ; or % or # box, or whatever, when emacs knew what language syntax was in the buffer, or has been given one already in its setup. Cheers, David.
