Re: Emphasizing text when composing mails?

Gijs Hillenius wrote:

>> Gnus has the feature to display some words with a different
>> face if they are bracketed with certain characters (*bold*,
>> /italic/, _underline_).
>>
>> Is there a command for the opposite direction when
>> composing mails, i. e. I write a paragraph, I want to mark
>> up "for example" as bold, so I select those words as
>> a region, M-x some-gnus-or-emacs-command, and the text
>> changes to "*for* *example*"?
>
> This is the difference between Gnus' Message mode (for
> writing) and its Article mode (for reading). No idea if it
> possible to add display features from Article mode to
> Message mode.

It should work, but doesn't,

;; regexp from gnus-art.el line 7878, Emacs 29.0 Gnus 5.13
(font-lock-add-keywords 'message-mode
 '(
   ("['`‘]\\([a-z][a-z0-9]+-[a-z]+\\)['’]"  (1 font-lock-reference-face))
   )
 t)

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