> > 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
> No, I am using a fixed font setting, actually. See, the conversion
> *removes* the asterisk or underscore, and thereby there's the effect
[...]
> 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.
Ah, right, I see. :-) Well I'd be a bit careful about relying on any
type of (mis)alignment issues since the boldface, etc is simply a
local interpretation of the symbols. The asterisks and stuff are still
there whether you can see them or not. Another mailer which doesn't
have the feature will print them in.
> 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.)
For similar reasons to above, this might cause confusion. It is
"accepted convention" to use asterisk=bold, underscore=underline,
slash=italic surrounding the word or phrase in any electronic text
message whether the medium supports typefaces or not. If you started
changing your symbols, the human-readability would reduce drastically.
The primary problem we have, IMHO, is the poor algorithm in the MD2
textinput class which converts the symbols to typefaces on the fly.
> > > 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
>
> 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
Sorry, wasn't thinking. :) Of course, as you say that wouldn't quote
the message... hmmm...
You could add the sender to you addressbook, then reply to the
mailinglist, but overwrite the "To:" address by selecting from your
addressbook before you send. But that is messy.
I'll second your request for a more flexible Reply function.. :)
Cheers,
Ian
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