*[Gaurav Priyolkar on Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 08:48:01PM +0530]:
>On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:54:03AM -0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> >> I want to know if all mail readers can parse underlined and bold text.
>> Maybe the dude's talking about *cough* HTMl mail?
>> A termcap setting might help :-\
>Nope ... this dude was talking about nroff (^H) sequences.
>I got an emacs major mode for mutt that has functions for underlining
>and embolding regions.
>No *cough* HTML.
*cough* *choke* nroff? Ancient history, man :)
Anyway, parsing that ^H stuff is extremely terminal specific
... as Binand pointed out.
[the standard bsd terminal handles it very well .. so do some xterms]
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