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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, harven@free.fr
Subject: Re: how to change the headline starter *
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:05:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <616D63EE-FB0A-4A33-8DB2-4A241A4AE45A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6820.1310666504@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net>


On 14.7.2011, at 20:01, Nick Dokos wrote:

> harven@free.fr wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> bzh@altern.org writes:
>>> 
>>> harven@free.fr writes:
>>> 
>>>> (setq outline-regexp "[-\f]+")
>>>> so as to use - as the headline starter character in outline mode.
>>>> Switch to another buffer, enter the text
>>>> 
>>>> - first heading
>>>> -- second heading
>>>>   some stuff here
>>>> 
>>>> Activate org-mode. M-x org-mode.
>>> 
>>> You should not do this.  org-mode lists start with a "-", using
>>> this character for headlines will just confuse things.
>> 
>> Let me rephrase my message then.
>> 
>> BUG. How to reproduce.
>> Starting with emacs -Q (this is emacs 23.2 together with org-mode 6.33),
>> execute in the scratch buffer
>> (setq outline-regexp "[•\f]+")
>> so as to use a bullet as the headline starter character in outline mode.
>> Switch to another buffer, enter the text
>> 
>> • first heading
>> •• second heading
>>   some stuff here
>> 
>> Activate org-mode. M-x org-mode.
>> 
>> Then go to the first heading. TAB folds the text as expected.
>> Go to the second heading. TAB inserts a TAB instead of folding
>> the second heading.
>> 
>>> Can't you live with the "*" as the headline character?
>> 
>> That's a pretty rude answer, I must say. I don't know a single
> 
> No, it's not. It is as clear an indication as anybody can give you that
> asterisks are pretty much embedded into org structure.
> 
> Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do that"
> Doctor: "Don't do that"
> 
> You may not like it but that's the way it is. Trying to change it at a
> superficial level (as you did by changing outline-regexp) is likely to
> land you in a world of pain.

Yes.  While in principle it might be possible
to change the headline character, in practice is would be
very difficult, because it is hard-coded not only in regular
expressions but also in the structure-editing commands and in
many other places.

Org-mocde has many syntax elements using many characters, and
any modification of the headline character would likely
lead to conflicts in other areas.  So I do not recommend
even trying to change this.  Outline-mode is a general mode
to do outlining and can change this.  Org-mode is a specific
file format.

BTW, this discussion has happened in the mailing list
before several times - a FAQ entry might indeed be
appropriate.

- Carsten



> 
> Nick
> 
>> language (language as e.g. english, russian, spanish...) that
>> uses * as an headline character. BTW, I know that bugs should be
>> reported through the bug tracker, I will do that asap, and
>> no, I don't have a patch, I don't understand how org-mode
>> works.
>> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-16  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2011-07-14 13:53 ` how to change the headline starter * harven
2011-07-14 15:47   ` Bastien
2011-07-14 17:32     ` harven
2011-07-14 18:01       ` Nick Dokos
2011-07-16  2:05         ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2011-07-16  6:20           ` harven
2011-07-16 10:33             ` Bastien
2011-07-16 10:31           ` Bastien
2011-07-19  5:16             ` Carsten Dominik
2011-07-25 21:33               ` Bastien
2011-07-14 19:10       ` Pieter Praet
2011-07-15 10:21         ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-07-15 10:40           ` Jambunathan K
2011-07-16 12:59           ` Pieter Praet
2011-07-17  8:08             ` Aankhen
2011-07-17  9:59               ` Christian Moe
2011-07-17 14:53             ` Marcus Klemm
2011-07-17 19:19               ` Bastien
2011-07-17 19:43                 ` Achim Gratz
2011-07-18  8:16                   ` Bastien
2011-08-13 13:46                 ` Matt Lundin
2011-08-13 14:16                   ` Matt Lundin
2011-08-16 16:40                     ` Bastien
2011-07-15 11:30         ` Memnon Anon
2011-07-15 10:49       ` Bastien
2011-07-15 18:19         ` Achim Gratz
2011-07-15 21:04           ` harven
2011-07-15 21:55             ` harven
2011-07-16 11:12             ` Bastien
2011-07-16 11:08           ` Bastien
2011-07-15 11:03       ` Bastien
2011-07-14 19:28     ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-07-15 10:52       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-07-15 11:30         ` Memnon Anon
2011-07-15 11:51           ` Bastien
2011-07-15 11:50         ` Bastien
2011-07-15 12:08           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-07-16 11:22             ` Bastien
2011-07-15 10:56       ` Bastien
2011-07-25 10:12         ` org-icons package (was: how to change the headline starter *) Renzo Been
2011-07-27 15:50           ` org-icons package Bastien
2011-06-11 18:58 how to change the headline starter * harven
2011-06-13 20:32 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2011-07-02  9:48   ` Bastien

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