Ashfaq writes: > Within the host, I opened an org file with the emacs. Now it can hide > the stars. However, interestingly, when I ssh-ed into the host with > 'putty' and opened the same file with emacs, it shows the stars. Do they have different colour backgrounds? Hide star is really just a hack by setting the stars to the same colour as the background. Charles -- "It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God." (By Matt Welsh)