GNU bug report logs - #23798
25.0.90; Underscore for emphasis in Info?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 00:14:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 25.0.90

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: 23798 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23798: 25.0.90; Underscore for emphasis in Info?
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 17:12:44 -0700 (PDT)

C-h i h n

Why are there underscores surrounding the text "please don't"?

They don't cause that text to be rendered any differently.  Emacs has
had faces for quite some time now.  Why not use a specific face for
this?  Is this vestigial?  Does it really serve a purpose?




In GNU Emacs 25.0.90.4 (i686-w64-mingw32)
 of 2016-03-20
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --without-dbus
 --without-compress-install CFLAGS=-static'
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 20 days ago.

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