* David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020107 15:15]: > Nick -- > > ...and then Nick Wilson said... > % > % Hi folks > > Hello! > > > % Firstly, yes, I know this is a trivial issue! > > Well, it depends on your definition of trivial... If you mean "easy", it > may not be; if you mean "worthless", then it might be :-) > > > % I use vim as my editor and can't work out how to make portions of my > % text bold? I know many of you use vim so I hope someone can help. > > What do you mean by bold? Do you mean in the resultant mail message? Do > you mean in a particular display? Do you mean in vim itself? Do you > mean in the interpretation of the reader? > > I believe the USENET conventions for highlightin under ASCII are > _underline_ and *bold* and /italics/ (but I'm not sure); that would > suffice for the reader's view. > > To get the character to print twice on the screen and thus look bolder, > you could embed backspaces like t^Hth^Hhi^His^Hs (which comes out looking > like tthhiiss). Note that that will mess up your line wrap length > because of all of the extra characters embedded therein... > > If, of course, you're composing *shudder* HTML email, you have the bold > tag <b><b></b> available. But lots of folks will dump your mail > into the trashcan immediately upon receipt :-) > > Other ideas are certainly possiblimplementations; if these don't answer > your question, give us more detail.
Thanks. Yes I mean /like/ HTML, but *not* HTML as I dump anything of nature also. I guess my understanding of real ASCII text is mistaken. I thought that because I saw bold text in mails sent to me (back when I was exclusively using Eudora under Win) that I could do the same. I guess they were some kind of HTML thing. I'll stick with using *bold* like this. It works for me :) Thanks again. -- Nick Wilson Tel: +45 3325 0688 Fax: +45 3325 0677 Web: www.explodingnet.com
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