I've found a way to side-step this issue by simply evaluating (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil). From then on any formatting is just spaces and the shifting doesn't occur. Still, this is odd behavior. On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 3:26 PM Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > Changing my theme didn't help. The foreground-color of hide-face is set to > the background color of my theme. What I suspect the problem is is the > spaces and tabs used by sml-mode for indentations. I don't think other > languages use a mix of spaces and tabs. They use just spaces. Is there a > way to convert every tab to its size in spaces? > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 2:52 PM Ag Ibragimov > wrote: > >> >> > As far as "org-hide face", I'm not sure what you mean. >> >> You've said: >> >> > I can't find where orgmode is suppressing the display of leading >> asterisks of headings. >> >> The asterisks being displayed/hidden is controlled by 'org-hide' face. >> Run "M-x describe-face org-hide RET" and see what the foreground of that >> face is set to. Alternatively, you can try switching to another theme and >> see if that makes any difference. >> >> On Fri 27 Mar 2020 at 12:30, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: >> >> > I did have a monospace font, but changing to a vari-spaced one didn't >> help. >> > I can promote/demote the heading above the code block and the alignment >> of >> > the code shifts along with it, specifically this sort of block with a >> let >> > >> > #+begin_src sml >> > fun countUpFrom1 (x : int) = >> > let >> > fun count (from : int, to : int) = >> > if from = to >> > then to :: [] >> > else from :: count (from+1, to) >> > in >> > count (1, x) >> > end >> > #+end_src >> > >> > Note, this is copied into my gmail from below a heading 4 -- which in >> the >> > sml code block looks good. However, as I pasted this into gmail, the >> spaces >> > and tabs are behaving differently, e.g., the let is exactly 4 spaces >> over, >> > while the second nested fun is just a single tab over, which gmail isn't >> > honoring. This >> > is the same behavior I'm seeing at, e.g., a level 3 heading. >> > >> > Again, when this file is brought up in a clean emacs -Q where only SML >> > mode/ob is set up and stars are all showing there is no (spaces v. tabs) >> > shifting around trouble. If I could definitively turn off star hiding I >> > could get around this shifting problem. But why this is happening is >> very >> > mysterious. As far as "org-hide face", I'm not sure what you mean. >> > >> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 12:19 PM Ag Ibragimov < >> agzam.ibragimov@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Have you tried tweaking org-hide face? Maybe the problem is with the >> font >> >> you use, is it monospaced? >> >> >> >> On Thu 26 Mar 2020 at 22:40, Lawrence Bottorff >> wrote: >> >> >> >> > I have searched high and low through my init/config and I can't find >> >> where >> >> > orgmode is suppressing the display of leading asterisks of headings. >> I've >> >> > got org-hide-leading-stars set to nil -- but it turns itself back on >> >> > whenever I open an org file. I can start a clean, blank org file (no >> >> > #+STARTUP hidestars/showstars) and create a few headings -- to see, >> once >> >> > again, the leading stars suppressed. My org-bullets is commented out >> in >> >> > init-land. I try an emacs -Q and of course I have leading stars on >> >> > sub-headings, however deep. Yes, it's something in my init/config, >> but I >> >> > just can't find what's suppressing leading stars. >> >> > >> >> > The whole reason I'm trying to do this is I'm tinkering with babel >> SML >> >> and >> >> > whenever I have a code block under a heading -- depending on the >> depth of >> >> > the heading -- the SML code block can be mis-justified. And if I >> >> > promote/demote the heading around with M- the SML >> code >> >> > alignment dances around depending on the depth. I can do C-c ' and >> the >> >> > alignment is perfect; but come back the org file and it's wonky. So >> if I >> >> > set up an SML babel environment in an emacs -Q environment -- with >> >> leading >> >> > starts -- no problem. >> >> > >> >> > This is maddening, to say the least. I need to turn off suppression >> or >> >> > figure out why suppressed stars and babel SML blocks don't mix. >> >> > >> >> > LB >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>