watson@shinobu.sgi.com (David M. Watson, Jr.) (02/07/90)
What's the best way to make gnus article buffers interpret backspace characters by overprinting, for example when an underline is indicated by character; control-H; underscore? It's annoying when words that look beautifully underlined in rn are unreadable in gnus, but this should be easy enough to fix. -D.
watson@shinobu.sgi.com (David M. Watson, Jr.) (02/08/90)
Kyle Jones writes: > Emacs highlighting support is minimal... Emacs' window management code > behaves strangely, at least to me. Then I suppose I'd settle for a way, in a given mode, to get emacs simply not to display sequences of control-H; underline. -D.
kjones@talos.uu.net (Kyle Jones) (02/08/90)
David M. Watson, Jr. writes: > What's the best way to make gnus article buffers interpret backspace > characters by overprinting, for example when an underline is indicated > by character; control-H; underscore? > > It's annoying when words that look beautifully underlined in rn are > unreadable in gnus, but this should be easy enough to fix. It should be, but it isn't, for two reasons: 1. Emacs highlighting support is minimal. Kludges are necessary to get Emacs to highlight a particular region of text, and these kludges usually require you to clear the current window for each new page, which means no screen update optimization. This will be a nightmare at low baud rates. 2. Emacs' window management code behaves strangely, at least to me. It is difficult to determine what the value of window-start is going to be at next redisplay, and you need to know this in order to do the highlighting kludge mentioned above.
karl@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (02/09/90)
watson@shinobu.sgi.com writes:
Then I suppose I'd settle for a way, in a given mode, to get emacs
simply not to display sequences of control-H; underline.
I suggest that you put gnus-Article-prepare-hook to use in such a way
that you invoke what amounts to a query-replace of "_\C-h" => ""
globally.mdb@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke) (02/09/90)
On 8 Feb 90 09:34:24 GMT, watson@shinobu.sgi.com (David M. Watson, Jr.) said: David> Then I suppose I'd settle for a way, in a given mode, to get emacs David> simply not to display sequences of control-H; underline. Consider using (or adapting) the nuke-nroff-bs function from man.el ... the only drawback is that it alters the buffer contents not just the display. -- Mark D. Baushke mdb@ESD.3Com.COM
deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) (02/10/90)
watson@shinobu.sgi.com writes:
watson> Then I suppose I'd settle for a way, in a given mode, to get
watson> emacs simply not to display sequences of control-H; underline.
On 8 Feb 90 19:11:13 GMT,
karl@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) said:
Karl> I suggest that you put gnus-Article-prepare-hook to use in such
Karl> a way that you invoke what amounts to a query-replace of "_\C-h"
Karl> => "" globally.
Sometimes I begin to wonder if anyone ever reads the things I post. I
posted a solution to this months back:
Path: pawl!shadow
From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine)
Date: 23 Sep 89 03:13:06
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Removing Underlining...
Distribution: gnu
Quick note:
(setq gnus-Article-prepare-hook '(lambda ()
(ununderline-region (point-min)
(point-max))))
will remove all underlining from an article... [but not from the
*Subject* buffer.]
Deven
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Geez.
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