I'll try the other approach if we can't make this work, because I like
it more x)
I've evaluated all of it, even re-opened emacs.

Uh, in my description of that function it doesn't say the same, it's the
regular one. I've executed toggle-debug-on-error and re-evaluated and
nothing. It seems that is not being evaluated.

Kaushal Modi:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:25 PM drymer <drymer@autistici.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> I didn't explain myself. It inserts four *, as it didn't find the
>> entity. I'm using emacs 24.5.3 and org-mode 8.34, which is the maint
>> branch. I've also tried with plain emacs without configuration.
>>
> 
> Those emacs and org versions are fine.
> 
> It could be one of two things:
> 1. You forgot to evaluate
> 
>     (advice-add 'org-self-insert-command :around
> #'modi/org-insert-org-entity-maybe)
> 
>     What do you see when you do C-h f org-self-insert-command after
> evaluating that whole code block?
> 
> I see
> 
> org-self-insert-command is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> `org.el'.
> 
> (org-self-insert-command N)
> 
> For more information check the manuals.
> 
> :before-until advice: ‘modi/org-insert-org-entity-maybe’
> 
> Like ‘self-insert-command’, use overwrite-mode for whitespace in tables.
> If the cursor is in a table looking at whitespace, the whitespace is
> overwritten, and the table is not marked as requiring realignment.
> 
> The ":before-until advice: ‘modi/org-insert-org-entity-maybe’" part in
> there is important. Do you see the same?
> 
> 2. If from above you see org-self-insert-command being advised correctly,
> then can you let me know what you get when you do
> 
> M-: (modi/org-entity-get-name "*")
> 
> You should get "ast" in return when you evaluate that.
> 
> Also I am confused why you cannot recreate what I see in emacs -Q. Are you
> explicitly using "emacs -Q"? Note that that Q is capital (not emacs -q).
>