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Subject: Re: how to change the headline starter *
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:31:41 +0200
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To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
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Hi Carsten,

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

This confirms my intuition that the "*" should be hardcoded.

I will work on a patch to this effect and submit it to the list, 
I even expect there will be some performance boost.

Thanks for your input!

-- 
 Bastien