> Back in the days of USENET one common choice was using a / to delimit /emphasis/ - the usual reading was that this indicated words that would normally be rend

> Back in the days of USENET one common choice was using a / to delimit /emphasis/ - the usual reading was that this indicated words that would normally be rendered as /italics/. Fuck no. Same idiocy as turning -- into long em, makes writing any technical posts mighty annoying Get better screen keyboard. On mine _ doesn't require shift, neither does *