Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email
On Tue 31 Jan 2023 at 19:49:18 (+0100), Pierre Willaime wrote:
>
> I would like to format plain text emails to increase readability and
> information separation. The idea is to go beyond markdown and to have
> more visible elements. For example I am looking for a convenient way to
> "draw" some ASCII boxes such as
>
> #####################
> ## some title here ##
> #####################
>
> (I am using emacs comment-box feature in a buffer to do this and I
> replace ; by #, I suppose there is nicer way to do this).
The question then is why emacs uses ; as a comment character. If
you're composing an email, I would expect to see another prompt:
No comment syntax is defined. Use:
unless you'd set up comment syntax for Text. I would only expect a
; or % or # box, or whatever, when emacs knew what language syntax
was in the buffer, or has been given one already in its setup.
Cheers,
David.
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