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From: D <d.williams@posteo.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: A new, "org-bullets"-like minor mode
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 16:49:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44f74f7f-2dfc-6ff1-235a-7f777eec737a@posteo.net> (raw)

Hi,

in the past two weeks I have been working on a new org minor mode based
on org-bullets.  Much like org-bullets-mode, the new mode (dubbed
"org-superstar-mode" for the time being) visually replaces headline
stars with UTF8 bullets.  However, while I took the code of org-bullets
as an initial template, I have largely rewritten the code base for lots
of additional features, including:

* The ability to fully customize the look of plain list items as well.
* Contextual sensitivity (meaning lists and headings are recognized
semantically, so org-superstar-mode ignores false positives in for
example SRC blocks)
* level-dependent fontification for bullets
* The ability to customize the look of leading stars, while respecting
org-hide-leading-stars.

However, since the mode still contains code snippets from org-bullets, I
have tried to contact the original author (sabof) of the package in the
hopes of getting an official approval before making the thing public.
The problem with /that/ however is that the author has been inactive for
several years now, with the package being maintained by Jonas Bernoulli,
who I did not yet contact.

So, before going any further, I wanted to first ask whether there is any
community interest in such a package.

As an addendum, an excerpt from the description of the yet-to-be package:

;; This package is heavily influenced by (and uses snippets from) the
;; popular package "org-bullets", created by sabof.  It was made with
;; the goal of inheriting features the author liked about org-bullets
;; while being able to introduce compatibility-breaking changes to it.
;; It is largely rewritten, to the point of almost no function being
;; identical to it's org-bullets counterpart.

next             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-01 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-01 15:49 D [this message]
2020-02-01 20:32 ` A new, "org-bullets"-like minor mode Marco Wahl
2020-02-01 20:47   ` D
2020-02-01 20:59     ` Marco Wahl
2020-02-01 21:19     ` Diego Zamboni
2020-02-01 22:57       ` org-superstar-mode: A re-imagining of org-bullets with new features D
2020-02-02  6:59         ` Bastien
2020-02-02 16:52         ` Adam Porter
2020-02-03  7:43     ` A new, "org-bullets"-like minor mode stardiviner
2020-02-04 10:43       ` D
2020-02-02 19:27 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2020-02-02 20:00   ` D

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