Re: Boldface typing

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

twlllmxxx <dogbreath@twilliam.org> writes:

> Just learning emacs. Editing text,

Ok.  So what is a text file?


> I want to type a word in boldface
> and then go back to default. So I use M-o b and type in boldface, then
> M-o d and continue typing. It looks right: one word in boldface and
> the rest in default. Then I save the file. Then I re-open it, and the
> boldface is gone. Maybe I made a mistake. I repeat the editing, save
> the file, and then re-open it. Again the boldface is gone. Any ideas?
>
> I'm working from Learning GNU Emacs by Cameron et al., O'Reilly.
>
> This is GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600).


Use M-x enriched-mode RET first.  Then you will save not a text file,
but an enriched-text file.



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