On 2016-10-13 12:13, Nick Dokos wrote:
>> >
>> > But when the cursor is next to the link or emphasized text markers are
>> > shown.
>> >
>> >       Pre text |[description] post text
>> >       Pre text |*bold text* post text
>> >
>> > It would not cause much jumping.  Of course, for people who wants to avoid
>> > jumping altogether org-hide-emphasis-markers could be set to nil.  It
>> > would arguably make org-hide-emphasis-markers more useful for emphasized
>> > text as well.
>> >
> I'm worried that this would be computationally prohibitive.

I think we have evidence to the contrary: prettify-symbols-mode works fine, even with unprettify-at-point.  Doesn't it?

Clément.