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rimiform on Dec 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on ...

I think you're looking for this behaviour? Try using * instead of _ and that's what you'll get. Use two for bold, if you want.

sph on Dec 20, 2021 [–]

Thanks, I didn't know that. But using underscores as emphasis is very common on plain text communications (Linus Torvalds uses them often)

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