> Samy Merchi was saying,
>
> > Is there a way to turn off the feature of converting underscores to
> > underlining and stars into bold text? I tend to send and receive a lot
>
> I'm not sure. I seem to remember somebody going on about "email mode"
> in the Textinput MUI prefs. Perhaps you could play with that. But it
> ought not to mess up your alignment: the asterisks and underscores and
> stuff are just conventions used in email, MD just tries to visually
> enhance them, they'd still be there anyway. For good alignment you
> need to set up a fixed font setting.
No, I am using a fixed font setting, actually. See, the conversion
*removes* the asterisk or underscore, and thereby there's the effect
of a 'delete' key being pressed -- the rest of the line moves one
space to the left, messing up stuff like tables and other aligned
stuff. Also, if I'm for example using asterisks as separators, they
just vanish and instead bolden up what comes after.
Gah. Update. It appears that at least in the new message window it
*doesn't* remove the asterisks, simply boldens the space between them.
IIRC, though, that's not how it works in the message reader window, in
which it *strips* the asterisks after boldening up the space between.
If that isn't the case, I must have a severe case of misremembering,
and I apologize.
I do think, though, that this feature should have at the very least an
on/off checkmark somewhere in the settings, if not more detailed
configuration options. (Such as for example assigning which symbol
converts to which enhancement, in case one tends to use another symbol
than an asterisk to indicate boldface.)
> > If a mailing list sets a Reply-to: to the list itself, how do I reply
> > directly to the sender?
>
> Easiest way is just click directly on the desired mail address in the
> titles or header of the message reader. MD will then send a new msg to
> that address.
So no way to reply to the sender and preserve the message body, short
of copypasting the entire message, then? Hunh. Okay. I suggest the
developers, if they're reading this, to add 'Reply to Sender' and
'Reply to All' into upcoming versions, if at all possible. It's rather
basic functionality and IMO the lack of it is quite stunning.
Oh, incidentally, I think it would also be a nice feature if the new
message window updated the message body area when you exited an
external editor. As it is, I tend to go to the external editor to
write messages, then quit and save the external editor, look at the
message window and it still has the old version, so I, being paranoid,
end up always hitting the external editor a second time and quitsaving
right away, just to get the textfield to update. Would it be too
tricky to find a way for the textfield to sense if the external editor
makes changes to the file, and update the textfield accordingly?
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