* Currently the bullets get painted with background color on occasion.
* Overlays are easy to turn on/off. Same might be true for font-lock, I
just haven't figured out a way.
* Org-bullets conflict with overlay-heavy modes (ex. org-columns). This
probably won't be the case with font-lock.
* An important point is that in my version every character in text
translates to a single character on display. Which makes it easier to work
with headlines.

In any case, I'm open to the possibility that this approach might lead to a
better/shorter solution.

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>wrote:

> I think what the package does can be achieved by the following snippet
> or with minor tweaks to it.  Is my understanding correct?
>
>     (font-lock-add-keywords
>      'org-mode `(("\\(?:^\\(?1:\\*+\\)[[:blank:]]\\)"
>                   (0 (progn (compose-region
>                              (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)
>                              (pcase (length (match-string 1))
>                                (1 ?\u2219)
>                                (2 ?\u2022)
>                                (3 ?\u25c9)
>                                (_ ?\u25CB)))
>                             nil)))))
>