Giovanni, Sebastion, thanks much for the quick response! after putting this in my .emacs: (setq org-fontify-emphasized-text nil) the underlines are wonderfully gone now. under ubuntu 8.04.1, i have: GNU Emacs 22.1.1 near the the top of that org.elc file, i find: ;;; Compiled by buildd@terranova.buildd on Sat May 3 08:57:10 2008 ;;; from file /build/buildd/emacs22-22.1/lisp/textmodes/org.el ;;; in Emacs version 22.1 ;;; with all optimizations. On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Sebastian Rose wrote: > This here makes the text displayed in fixed width: > > =cd /blah/= > =/usr/bin/start_the_engine= > > This here makes a block of code from it: > > :cd /blah/ > :/usr/bin/start_the_engine > > > In both cases no underlining or italic problems occur. > > > > Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: > >> -- Ven 24/10/08, Martin Stitt ha scritto: >> >>> i edit documents that describe processes involved in doing >>> system >>> administration, so there are >>> lots of file paths involved: >>> >>> >> hi Martin, if I use this text: >> ------------------------------ >> * test 4 Martin >> >> now change into subdir blah and start the engine: >> >> cd /blah/ >> /usr/bin/start_the_engine >> >> C:\Documents and Settings\Myuser\Documenti\tmp >> ------------------ >> the only thing I notice is the /blah/ word that is in italics[1] >> >> Would you please report your emacs version >> your org-version ? >> >> TIA >> cheers >> Giovanni >> >> >> %------------------------------------------ >> [1] You want you can avoid it customizing the variable: >> >> org-fontify-emphasized-text nil >> >> >> (defcustom org-fontify-emphasized-text t >> "Non-nil means fontify *bold*, /italic/ and _underlined_ text. >> Changing this variable requires a restart of Emacs to take effect." >> >> %------------------------------- >> >> >> Scopri il blog di Yahoo! Mail: >> Trucchi, novità e scrivi la tua opinione. >> http://www.ymailblogit.com/blog >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >> Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >