From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: can the symbol for leading stars be changed?
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:22:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6B9F5437-DC9D-43F1-B63B-7099F72D8221@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wn5g4we.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de>
On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Gray Calhoun <gray.calhoun@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Gray,
>
>> Is there a way for users to easily replace the leading stars with
>> another symbol? In particular, I want to replace the '*' with '#' so
>> that I use org mode to write pseduocode for R in outline form -- R
>> uses # to designate comments and this would ensure that the headers
>> wouldn't be read as code.
>
> I guess you want to use `orgstruct-mode' in R files, right? I also
> had
> the idea to do that, but till now I failed. As a workaround I use
> `outline-minor-mode' and set the `outline-regexp' to <comment-
> character
> of the language><one-or-many-stars>.
>
> Here's the code from my .emacs.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun th-outline-regexp ()
> "Calculate the outline regexp for the current mode."
> (let ((comment-starter (replace-regexp-in-string
> "[[:space:]]+" "" comment-start)))
> (when (string= comment-start ";")
> (setq comment-starter ";;"))
> (concat "^" comment-starter "\\*+")))
>
> (defun th-outline-minor-mode-init ()
> (interactive)
> (setq outline-regexp (th-outline-regexp)))
>
> (add-hook 'outline-minor-mode-hook
> 'th-outline-minor-mode-init)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I wonder if I cannot make `orgstruct-mode' work the same way. I've
> always thought that it uses `outline-regexp' for the cycling and
> stuff,
> but maybe I'm wrong. What's the correct regexp that's used for
> `org-cycle'? `org-complex-heading-regexp'?
org-cycle does use outline-regexp, so this will work fine. However,
for much other functionality, including demotion and promotion,
stars are hard-coded.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-16 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-16 3:17 can the symbol for leading stars be changed? Gray Calhoun
2009-03-16 10:04 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-03-16 19:20 ` Gray Calhoun
2009-03-16 21:22 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-03-17 8:21 ` Orgstruct-mode with custom outline-regexp (was: can the symbol for leading stars be changed?) Tassilo Horn
2009-03-17 10:48 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-17 12:00 ` Orgstruct-mode with custom outline-regexp Tassilo Horn
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